Anonymous Patron writes “THe Independent Reports The director of Spain’s national library, the guardian of the country’s reading heritage – including the country’s newspaper archive – has scandalised the chattering classes by admitting she doesn’t read newspapers and is glad their sales are flagging.
“I haven’t read the press for two months. I don’t watch television or listen to the radio because the tension they express upsets me so much I can’t work,” said Rosa Regas, a writer with left-wing views who was appointed head of the Biblioteca Nacional when the current government took office in 2004. “I know who I vote for, and I know where the lies and insults come from, and I am not a masochist,” she said in an interview published in the Tribuna de la Administracion Publica, a magazine published by the civil service union affiliated to the pro-communist Workers’ Commissions.
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Literacy
If this woman really cares about literacy, then she is hypocritical in the statements she’s made. Literacy is not a dormant thing, and our world, if she hasn’t noticed, changes from day to day, hour to hour.
Maybe it’s a critique of the press as it exists, which in many cases is valid, but she certainly should be able to find some news sources, some newspapers, radio stations or internet sites on which she and the Spanish populace can rely. TV news I agree is practically worthless.