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...point is this: the general media have become host to tabloid content. Steve Coz knows this, and he's getting a bang out of moralizing from a position of weakness. The mainstream media have failed to do their job, namely to speak up for their reader by explaining the events of the big world to him or her by highlighting what is important, not what is entertaining. That's a job for the tabloids. What's important, like state budgets, the spread of disease and urban planning, can be made interesting because these are the issues that matter to real...
...Adams, the key to reading is that words must be recognized almost instantly so that the brain can be free to comprehend what is being read. Eye-movement studies show that readers do fixate on virtually every letter in the text. It has also been shown that readers "sound out" words unconsciously. Each letter, then, must be sounded out with incredible speed. Of course, in English there are many different ways for sounds to be represented by letters. In Adams' scheme, a reader does not have to learn all these combinations; once phonemic awareness is established and some sound-letter...
...Walsh--the no-nonsense host of the Fox TV show America's Most Wanted--decide to write down his own story. From its searing prologue through its frank re-creation of the lives undone by Adam's murder, Tears of Rage (Pocket Books; 318 pages; $24) astonishes the reader by turning a familiar tale into one full of fresh detail, undiminished pain and troubling revelation...
...chosen place, researched it exhaustively, then wrote workmanlike tomes peopled with real and imaginary characters. "There are a whole lot of things I'm not good at," he said. "I'm not hard in dialogue...But what I can do is put a good narrative together and hold the reader's interest...
Scott Meyer's gory masterpiece, The Guys' Guide to Guys' Video, also gleefully picks the "inner child" as the pop-psychology cliche to bash the most. However, Meyer's style of writing lacks the camaraderie that "Ralph" and "Reggie" easily form with the reader. (One can't help but imagine him to be Beavis and Butthead's older and more educated cousin.) He realizes that the key to a good movie guide is critiques of the movies, but oh, what critiques he gives...