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Changing patterns among readers, TV watchers
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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
9/19/2007 5:05 AM |
I’ve been reading in some sources lately that people aren’t reading books, magazines and newspapers as much as they once did. TV-watching is reportedly down, too, so it makes me wonder just what is taking up so much of people’s time lately – what it is they’re using to fill the void in their schedules.
I’d guess that it’s probably the Internet, that multi-fascinating be-all and do-all to many of the world’s residents. The Internet is so remarkable that I marvel when I hear of the occasional soul who has no familiarity with it at all. My wife belongs to that category. She does not know how to access the Internet, and if she clambered over that obstacle, she probably wouldn’t know where to go once she logged on. She has started taking a computer course, as of several weeks ago, and she’s been hinting around that she’d like her own computer. So I presume she will eventually join the rest of us here in the 21st Century, and then she too will start spending hours in front of a computer monitor in the not-too-distant future.
That will, however, cut greatly into her reading time – and the time she spends in front of our TV set, too, so she’ll join those statistics mentioned in the first paragraph. The Internet is such a rich source of information, both bogus and valid, that its importance to modern life cannot be emphasized enough. The trick, of course, is to separate the bogus from the valid, and that can be pretty difficult to do. However, that’s a problem we’ve always confronted before, even long before the Internet was even dreamed up. Books have been printed with erroneous and misleading information. Newspapers, too. Radio and TV broadcasts, and motion pictures have all been used to propagandize various populations, so it’s no great surprise that the Internet, with its billions of sources, contains a fair share of specious information as well.
There is much that is wrong with the Internet, but its overall value is so enormous that I doubt too many would want to forsake its advantages just to avoid its shortcomings. |
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Re: Changing patterns among readers, TV watchers |
By bawble on
9/24/2007 6:37 AM |
| Sometimes I wonder just how did all of that information GET into the internet. Somebody had to put it in there. |
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Re: Changing patterns among readers, TV watchers |
By Barbara Greenwood on
11/2/2007 9:31 AM |
| Sadly, I have to agree with your comments. Children today are very internet savvy. That's a good thing. They'll need to be when they grow up and go out into the real world. Reading seems to have fallen by the wayside. Correct spelling doesn't seem to be a concern. Being involved with a reading program in an elementary school and seeing the thoughtful, caring hand written notes by the students has proven to me that correct grammer and puntuation is no longer a priority either. Times have certainly changed since I went to school, or is it that there just isn't enough time in the school day? |
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