Book Board Chat

Come to think of it, Swifty started reading the newspaper as soon as he could read. It was a daily habit of his. Not all children grow up in a home where a newspaper was always on-hand. and now there will be fewer and fewer. LLB stuck with reading cereal boxes a bit longer! LOL If a newspaper isn't in the house then children don't get exposed to it except at school, esp. during the week that a unit is done on "Newspapers in Education." I know when we would go on vacation we had the option of either getting all the old newspapers delivered when we returned or we could 'earmark' that week of our subscription to go towards the donation of newspapers to schools.

It is similar with books. If children are growing up in a home with no books or magazines and not taken to the library, it is the school that tries to make up the short fall at home.

While the 6 and 11 newscasts have been on since many of us were young, in recent years there is the 24/7 cable news network that people tune into. Young people also get their news from the on-line articles - more far-reaching than just the local paper. From Boston to LA, one can read a variety of articles all on the same event and some (unless they are running the AP news) give a slightly diffferent slant to things.

I have read that a lot of young people get their news from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report, both on Comedy Central. It is amazing the people who come onto the Daily Show - Supreme Court justices, generals, more. And the Cobert Report is a real hoot!