Saturday, July 10, 2004
A report released yesterday by the US national endowment for the arts says the number of adults who read no literature increased by more than 17 million between 1992 and 2002. It found that 47% of American adults read poems, plays or narrative fiction in 2002, a drop of seven percentage points from a decade earlier. Those reading any books at all in 2002 fell to 57%, from 61%.
No wonder the first third of Fahrenheit 9-11 copies the first chapters of Dude, Where's My Country, most of the audience Michael Moore intends to reach haven't read it. I wonder what the figures are like for this country...
No wonder the first third of Fahrenheit 9-11 copies the first chapters of Dude, Where's My Country, most of the audience Michael Moore intends to reach haven't read it. I wonder what the figures are like for this country...
