Illiteracy on the Increase:

Newspaper circulation continues to fall in the United States according to new numbers released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The late edition of The New York Times, released online, reports on the falling trend in paid circulations of newspapers around the country. Naturally, the Web is being blamed, but the truth is that literacy is falling as well. Fewer people are willing to read and much of the country has difficulty reading newspapers, which are written at the seventh grade reading level.

While the business model of selling paper newspapers may be a failing one, the harder truth is that fewer people are capable of being able to decipher sentences that thirty years ago the average twelve-year-old could easily understand.