Media Diet: What I Read: Danny Bloom

How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all? Do they have some secret? Perhaps. We are asking various journalists and bloggers who seem well-informed to describe their media diets. This is from an exchange with Danny Bloom, who believes that reading on paper is so different (and superior, in terms of retention and processing and analysis, not to mention critical thinking skills obtained) from reading on screens that he has coined a new word for reading on screens -- SCREENING -- and he is sure that future MRI scans will prove his hunch correct, that reading on paper lights up different parts of the brain than reading on screens does, and that these parts are superior in terms of retention, processing, analysis, etc, BUT NOBODY BELIEVES HIM. WELL NOT YET.

Wait until Patricia Cohen at the New York Times finishes and publishes her article about reading vs screening in the Times soon. Then word will get out.

Danny says:

I remain a large consumer of print. I read three dailies ON paper almost every day, two in English, one in Chinese