Library jobs in the new society: Kennedy Jr. did precisely what a keynoter should.(blatant berry)(Robert F. Kennedy Jr. )(Conference notes)

WHEN GOVERNMENTS RUN THE CORPORATIONS, it is communism. When corporations run the governments, as Mussolini showed us, it is fascism. To keep our society between and away from those extremes, we need a humane, socially, politically, and economically responsible entrepreneurial capitalism. That is a paraphrase of some of what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in his keynote speech at the recent conference of the Public Library Association (PLA) in Philadelphia. I didn't record his exact words, but that is what I took away.

Later, I heard a lot of librarians complain because Kennedy didn't mention libraries, or as they put it, didn't use the "L" word: I thought their criticism was …