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I think there are a lot out there who would like the U.S. to be illiterate.
1 posted on 08/10/2025 7:10:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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No one reads anymore. Society doesn’t even seem to think that’s a problem.


2 posted on 08/10/2025 7:13:36 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The list of things I no longer care about is long. And it's getting longer.)
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It’s not that people aren’t reading, it’s that people aren’t reading woke crap. Go to any bookstore and tell me what you find. It’s all DEI. The entire progressive culture is in freefall collapse.


3 posted on 08/10/2025 7:22:37 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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Associated Propaganda cannot die soon enough.


4 posted on 08/10/2025 7:29:54 PM PDT by Señor Presidente (Tyranny deserves insurrection)
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Applied Propaganda has book reviews, who knew?


5 posted on 08/10/2025 7:36:23 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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My nephew was joining the Marines right out of high school. As a gift, I gave him the complete DVDs for JAG. He loved it.

So then I collected the entire Marine series of books, The Corps, by WEB Griffin, for him. I love the series and have read it so often it’s just old and familiar now. He didn’t read a single one.

Turned out he’ll watch TV but he won’t open a book. My interest in that part of my family evaporated rapidly. How do you communicate with a non-reader?


6 posted on 08/10/2025 7:36:25 PM PDT by mairdie
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Propaganda outlets have to deal with MARKET FORCES now that USAID is gone.


7 posted on 08/10/2025 7:39:51 PM PDT by BobL (If you're over 50 and still eat carbs, expect to become diabetic)
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BookTok has taken over.
9 posted on 08/10/2025 8:37:48 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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Ah, yes. Just as another powerful conservative author reaches NUMBER ONE on the best sellers list.

Mark Levin

El Rush-Bo called him The Great One

His latest best seller: On Power

El Rush-Bo also called AP.. APO

Associated
Press
Obama


10 posted on 08/10/2025 8:44:29 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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The lying leftists said “It only stands to reason Trump would want to end the US Department of Education. Only illiterate fools would vote for his party and he wants to keep Americans dumbed down.”

The bosses of AP strained and strained themselves finding book reviewers who could not only read sentences but also write or dictate to someone who could write down the review words.

Exhausting.

I have read several times that some school districts and colleges say they no longer require reading “a book” which they call “long form reading.” Students now read 2-4 pages of Wikipedia or similar sources where someone else has condensed the content as the students no longer have the habit of reading a full book.

Look at this.....AP itself wrote about that.
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2024/not-so-great-expectations-students-are-reading-fewer-books-in-english-class/

and the leftist Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.

By Rose Horowitch
October 1, 2024

...((About Nicholas Dames a college professor))...
He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become overwhelmed by the reading. College kids have never read everything they’re assigned, of course, but this feels different. Dames’s students now seem bewildered by the thought of finishing multiple books a semester. His colleagues have noticed the same problem. Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.

This development puzzled Dames until one day during the fall 2022 semester, when a first-year student came to his office hours to share how challenging she had found the early assignments. Lit Hum often requires students to read a book, sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a week or two. But the student told Dames that, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book. She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover.


14 posted on 08/10/2025 9:47:34 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Hey! I have another way they could help their declining budget—start telling the truth!


17 posted on 08/10/2025 11:49:09 PM PDT by Dr. Zzyzx
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