Re:Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression
by hckr_news on Friday May 15, 2020 @06:06PM
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I think the point he’s trying to make is people are reading, but reading blurbs and tweets, rather than long form content like a book or an essay piece. Similar to eating fast food as it’s readily available, accessible, quick instead of choosing a more wholesome meal with good benefits.
Re:Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression
by kgwgk on Friday May 15, 2020 @06:27PM
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In that case, he could have said "a book" rather than "the newspaper".
Re:Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression
by robryan on Friday May 15, 2020 @08:29PM
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Most newspapers have never really been much different, same with the nightly news on TV. Everything is presented in such a way to give a very brief surface level look at a lot of stories without really giving a level of deep understanding of anything.
Online that level of deep understand is there if you want it, but most people scrolling through a feed won’t seek it out.
Doesn't this completely invalidate your argument? If it's that much easier for folks to read an article about war crimes in South America committed by the US and the next about Kylie Jenner at a gala, how is that different from reading one section of a newspaper and then a different section?