Casualty Report
—Lewis H. Lapham, writer and former editor of Harper’s
Magazine, author, Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy (2004) (Thanks to alert WORDster Armour Van Horn)
• Editorial Comment: Nobody reads the bulletins from the front either.
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While I'm prepared to be as pessimistic as the next person when it comes to literacy, both Gallup and Pew have repeatedly polled Americans and found that somewhere between 75 to 83 percent of adults have read at least one book in the last year, much less in their entire lives. http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/04/04/part-2-the-general-reading-habits-of-americans/
ReplyDeleteLapham, apparently, is prepared to be a bigger pessimist than you, Brian.
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