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Book chief: Conservatives want slogans
By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer Tue Aug 21, 2:40 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Liberals read more books than conservatives. The head of the
book publishing industry's trade group says she knows why - and there's
little flattering about conservative readers in her explanation.
"The Karl Roves of the world have built a generation that just wants a
couple slogans: 'No, don't raise my taxes, no new taxes,'" Pat Schroeder,
president of the American Association of Publishers, said in a recent
interview. "It's pretty hard to write a book saying, 'No new taxes, no new
taxes, no new taxes' on every page."
Schroeder, who as a Colorado Democrat was once one of Congress' most
liberal House members, was responding to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll
that found people who consider themselves liberals are more prodigious
book readers than conservatives.
She said liberals tend to be policy wonks who "can't say anything in less
than paragraphs. We really want the whole picture, want to peel the
onion."
The book publishing industry is predominantly liberal, though conservative
books by authors like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and
pundit Ann Coulter have been best sellers in recent years. Overall, book
sales have been flat as publishers seek to woo readers lured away by the
Internet, movies and television.
Rove, President Bush's departing political adviser, is known as a
prodigious reader. White House spokesman Tony Fratto said Schroeder was
"confusing volume with quality" with her remarks.
"Obfuscation usually requires a lot more words than if you simply focus on
fundamental principles, so I'm not at all surprised by the loquaciousness
of liberals," he said.
"As head of a book publishing association, she probably shouldn't malign
any readers," said Mary Matalin, a GOP strategist who oversees a line of
books by conservative authors, Threshold, at Simon & Schuster. Matalin
said conservatives and others aren't necessarily reading less, but are
getting more information online and from magazines.
The AP-Ipsos poll found 22 percent of liberals and moderates said they had
not read a book within the past year, compared with 34 percent of
conservatives.
Among those who had read at least one book, liberals typically read nine
books in the year, with half reading more than that and half less.
Conservatives typically read eight, moderates five.
By slightly wider margins, Democrats tended to read more books than
Republicans and independents. There were no differences by political party
in the percentage of those who said they had not read at least one book.
The poll involved telephone interviews with 1,003 adults and was conducted
August 6 to 8. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3
percentage points.
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AP Manager of News Surveys Trevor Tompson and AP News Survey Specialist
Dennis Junius contributed to this report.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070821/ap_on_re_us/political_reading_habits_2
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22 Aug 2007 10:29:45 AM |
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Judging from the 'vast' knowledge base that has been able to draw from. That
is definately true. If all the conservatives withdrew our 'services' once
and for all, I wonder where they would be?
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| User: "Docrodile" |
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| Title: Re: Liberals Read More Books Than Conservatives |
22 Aug 2007 07:34:39 PM |
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"mukyuk" <a@b.com> wrote in message
news:JDYyi.82149$rX4.28757@pd7urf2no...
Judging from the 'vast' knowledge base that has been able to draw from.
That is definately true. If all the conservatives withdrew our
'services' once and for all, I wonder where they would be?
Vigorously hooting, jumping about, and banging on garbage can lids in
Florida just outside polling places in predominantly Democratic counties.
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