Thursday, February 17, 2011
No One Reads Anymore
I was recently surfing the web and came across an old article that quotes Steve Jobs speaking regarding the Kindle. He provocatively states that “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore.” Even though Jobs is speaking about the Kindle, I believe we can apply this comment to the news as well. Unfortunately, we all know that reading, especially the newspaper, is on the decline. We are in an information age that gives us all the information we would ever think of ever wanting or needing and then some, and yet we are more ignorant today than our parents were when they were our age. How could this be? This is the unfortunate reality caused by the lack of interest in reading the news. Today there are so many distractions that students simply neglect to follow the news.
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Sadly, its not just reading the news which has declined. These days people don't care enough to pay attention to the news through any media source, they don't listen to news radio or watch the news. Not only are we not reading which is bad by itself but the fact that we are unaware of whats going on in the world makes it just pathetic.
ReplyDeleteWe're in a "happy unconsciousness." We're so used to instant gratification and turning off our brains for hours at a time to watch tv, playing video games, and chatting on gmail and facebook, that when it comes time to actually think, we are lost and reluctant. If we've got a spare moment in the day, we watch the latest episode of the office instead of reading into the spreading violence in Lybia. I'm no exception.
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