LETTER TO THE EDITOR: People don’t read enough any more

Well, I think that the Odessa American has shot itself in the foot this time! I’m referring to their recent decision to go primarily digital online, and only deliver an actual paper on Wednesdays and Saturdays. And, now it is going to be mailed, which means that it will no longer be a morning newspaper in a lot of cases, since the mail does not run until sometimes as late as five or six p.m. That won’t be news, it’ll be history.

I am assuming that this is a cost-cutting measure, since newspaper circulation is down almost nationwide. And, I believe this is caused by more and more people not reading anymore. Most people are more concerned with watching sports on TV, or streaming movies, than they are in current events, and knowing what is going on in the world.

This is the very reason that Socialists, liberals, and secular humanists are becoming successful in converting America into a socialist, anti-Christian country.

Also, complicating the problem (or making it easier for the Socialists) is the fact that way too many people nowadays have graduated from dumbed-down schools, and literally can’t read. High schools now are graduating semi-literate, and functionally illiterate students who are incapable of independent thinking. All they know about the country, and the world, is what they get from 30-second soundbites on the internet, and what they get from the social media pages, which, as we all know, are factually accurate and true! After all, you can’t put anything on the internet that isn’t true!

I absolutely hate this decision to downsize circulation! I like to read the paper in the mornings while I eat my breakfast, and I like to have a physical paper to hold. I love to read, but I want real books and newspapers. I will not read an Ebook, Kindle, etc. I am fairly computer-savvy, but I have absolutely no interest in reading a computer screen while I eat. I don’t have a computer in my kitchen anyway.

I sincerely believe this decision will come back to bite the O.A. in the butt, in the future.

Sandy Milner

Odessa