Just read new data on the decline in newspaper readership. Such trends are often discounted as a shift in the source for news ther sources. Do we really know that different is equivalent (or better)? I wonder if there would be a way to contrast common knowledge of current events 20 years ago with common knowledge now. What if we want to delude ourselves and are making assumptions that are not valid. What if the new literacy is focused on shallowness and feeding stereotypes?
Any sources with data on this topic?
Time for me to watch the evening news.
P.S. A colleague tweeted in response to this post and provided the following links:
