Susan Jacoby's article in the Washington Post is linked here. It's a well-researched accounting of facts and numbers illustrating the relationship between Americans and their media in recent history.
She quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself."
Is our national dullness driving the media, or are we a product of the media pablum we've been fed?
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
The Dumbing of America
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