Books in the Media Landscape

[William G Covington Jr PhD]

With media going digital there is still a place for traditional print media such as books, magazines, and newspapers. A recent interview with book lover Tucker Carlson was published in the Sunday Pittsburgh Tribune Review in which he talked about the joy of being a lifelong book lover. He acquired the trait from his dad and was seeking to instill it in the lives of his children. Carlson said his wife was a book lover too. To him, books connected him to certain times in his life. He kept various memorbilia in books as reminders of what he was doing as he read different books. As a book lover myself, I feed off articles that reinforce my bias to this unique medium. Carlson pointed out that one thinks thoughts that are not addressed in any other media by reading books.