Comments on: Edgar and Adams talk up a storm about TV http://antonyloewenstein.com/2006/09/30/edgar-and-adams-talk-up-a-storm-about-tv/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:39:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: melanie http://antonyloewenstein.com/2006/09/30/edgar-and-adams-talk-up-a-storm-about-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-13544 melanie Sat, 30 Sep 2006 13:55:31 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/09/30/edgar-and-adams-talk-up-a-storm-about-tv/#comment-13544 <i>although children are indeed bombarded with unprecedented levels of popular culture, there was no evidence that literacy was falling</i> I haven't read what Ms Lumby wrote, but surely there is a non sequitur in this statement. Literacy is a skill that provides access to a range of sources of information and knowledge, including popular, classical, academic, technical, fiction, non-fiction, etc, etc., literatures. It's what you read that counts, not whether you can read it. I read somewhere recently that watching more than an hour of TV a day makes you dumber. I don't know if they controlled for 'independent' vs Murdoch programs. although children are indeed bombarded with unprecedented levels of popular culture, there was no evidence that literacy was falling

I haven't read what Ms Lumby wrote, but surely there is a non sequitur in this statement. Literacy is a skill that provides access to a range of sources of information and knowledge, including popular, classical, academic, technical, fiction, non-fiction, etc, etc., literatures. It's what you read that counts, not whether you can read it.

I read somewhere recently that watching more than an hour of TV a day makes you dumber. I don't know if they controlled for 'independent' vs Murdoch programs.

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