> "A childhood largely spent watching television yields to an adolescence with a com­puter, and the university receives a student unlikely to welcome the sugges

> "A childhood largely spent watching television yields to an adolescence with a com­puter, and the university receives a student unlikely to welcome the suggestion that we must endure our going hence even as our going hither: ripeness is all. Reading falls apart, and much of the self scatters with - Harold Bloom okay, adolescence with a computer is a new phenomenon and not something to trivially assume that TV will lead to a habit without books... (you can read things and learn on the internet, too) I figured before reading the article that they were going to be like "people who read books (and not the news) are distant, stuck up pricks", which would also have been false because good moral people can arise whether their media diet is of any combination of fiction, nonfiction, paper news, college courses, TV, social media, etc - it's not a guarantee that a book reading 40 year old is a saint, nor that a 20 year old with a smartphone is a demon.