I can't find a linkable (or copyable) image of this cartoon, so you'll have to follow this link to the June 24 cartoon.
I don't even know where to start with this one. Oh wait, yes I do--one character actually tells another to delete something he doesn't like on a blog he's reading. Are you kidding? Does this guy actually believe you're able to do this? It's someone else's blog. You can no more delete what's on my blog than I can erase your inane cartoon.
OK, now that that's taken care of, let's address the main point. Have you ever seen a blog that read like anything within two area codes of that? I haven't, and I've seen a lot of blogs. If you wrote like that, you'd be out of readers in a hurry. In fact, most of the blogs I've read are superbly written--many in the ballpark of the quality of a lot of the newspaper writing I read.
I'm guessing from the word "kitty" that he's trying to refer to the phenomenon of Lolcats--but, really, that meme has nothing to do with an inability to form a proper sentence, and next to nothing to do with blogs as a whole.
I believe the tide of illiteracy you're trying to address, Mr. Man, is coming largely from text-messaging, not blogging. So until you figure that out, you're just making the rest of us newspaper folks who don't think blogs were invented by Beelzebub look bad.
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you get 1 point for mentioning LOL cats. nice work.
The literacy rate in the U.S. is something like 99% This figure does not accurately represent our countries ability to read and comprehend material with any substantive depth.
I agree, I certainly would not put blogging in this same category. I read many blogs that deal with subjects that are very academic..
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