News Sources: Reading vs. TV Survey

Americans aged 15 to 24 on average spend two hours a day watching TV and only seven minutes on leisure reading, reducing their chances for high-paying jobs and community service, according to a report by the National Endowment for the Arts. Reporters looking for experts to interview on these topics can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including the following: (click on names for contact information):

Claudia E. Cornett - Professor of Education, Wittenberg University - Cornett has delivered 300 speeches and authored books and articles on learning styles, bibliotherapy, motivation, literature-based reading instruction and whole language. She also wrote and taught the children's instructional television program, teacher in-service as well as a teacher in-service video series on reading.

Ronald Lembo - Associate Professor of Sociology, Amherst College - Lembo's newest book is Thinking Through Television: Viewing Practices and the Social Limits to Power.Teaches and writes about the sociology of mass media and mass culture, news and entertainment systems, media corporations.

Thomas Cloer - Professor of Education, Furman University - Cloer is a reading specialist who has written extensively on phonics and other basic reading techniques. He has long argued against standardization of reading materials for elementary school children. He was voted the South Carolina Governor's Professor of the Year in 1988.