Shout It Out
[Posted by reader_iam]
C'mon, 'fess up: How many of you have actually read (explicitly excluding those who've skimmed over the past day) Graham Greene's The Quiet American? And I mean "read": seeing one of the movie versions is a different answer, and non-responsive to my question.
Moving to the speculative realm: Express, as a percentage of each category, how many a) journalists, b) bloggers, c) people in general and d)[you supply a category) you're thinking have read the book in question.
C'mon, 'fess up: How many of you have actually read (explicitly excluding those who've skimmed over the past day) Graham Greene's The Quiet American? And I mean "read": seeing one of the movie versions is a different answer, and non-responsive to my question.
Moving to the speculative realm: Express, as a percentage of each category, how many a) journalists, b) bloggers, c) people in general and d)[you supply a category) you're thinking have read the book in question.
Labels: Cultural Literacy and Illiteracy, Cynicism, Graham Greene, media, Politics, The Emperor's Clothes, Timewasters
