People who read for news and information are different from people who gather all their news and opinion from videotic sources.

What is killing literacy in this country is that too many people are content to watch and listen, which are passive activites. . .

. . . whereas reading requires cerebral effort. The age of TV, having morphed now into the age of online/device imagery, is smothering literacy and literate criticism from public consciousness.

Or to simplify this explanation: the Fox has taken control of the henhouse.