Subj : Re: morgan spurlock dead
To   : Dumas Walker
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue May 28 2024 07:41 am

-=> Dumas Walker wrote to MRO <=-

 DW> I could understand someone a lot younger not having a clue, but it
 DW> surprised me a little that someone so close in age never learned about
 DW> either of those events.

I couldn't imagine any journalism major not watching "All the
President's Men". Although "journalism" probably doesn't mean
investigative journalism any more. I could imagine a marketing
"influencer" thinking of themselves as a journalist.

There's a great book called The "Dictionary of Cultral Literacy" that
every young adult should have - it has a quick precis of events and
items that people should know about and why they're important.

From the description:

In this fast-paced information age, how can Americans know what's really
important and what's just a passing fashion? Now more than ever, we need
a source that concisely sums up the knowledge that matters to Americans
-- the people, places, ideas, and events that shape our cultural
conversation. With more than six thousand entries,The New Dictionary of
Cultural Literacy is that invaluable source.
Wireless technology. Gene therapy. NAFTA. In addition to the thousands
of terms described in the original Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, here
are more than five hundred new entries to bring Americans' bank of
essential knowledge up to date. The original entries have been fully
revised to reflect recent changes in world history and politics,
American literature, and, especially, science and technology. Cultural
icons that have stood the test of time (Odysseus, Leaves of Grass,
Cleopatra, the Taj Mahal, D-Day) appear alongside entries on such varied
concerns as cryptography, the digital divide, the European Union,
Kwanzaa, pheromones, SPAM, Type A and Type B personalities, Web
browsers, and much, much more.


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