NEA's lugubrious findings, 2004 and 2007: the imminent collapse of "serious," culturally significant reading... or markets, anyway.

Claims for "print culture" as an essential constituent of civilization as we know it.

Threat identified as newer media: movies, TV, the Internet.

No solutions offered. Heck of a job, Joyboy? ("...looking up at me from a puddle of its own drool.")