The reason it’s a bad day for news rooms isn’t because of the illiterate America that Hedge so solemnly swore existed. And truthfully I believe there is a big separation in the literacy of Americans as Hedge did describe. The bad news for news rooms is in the fact that people are skimming the surface of knowledge as Carr described in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” People are no longer reading for in depth analysis on recent news topics in order to understand the ways that other nations and cultures think, but rather look at the minimum knowledge of a topic just to see what major occurrences are affecting the world. In relation to Clive Thompson’s article on the new literacy, the new literacy isn’t about reading, rather about writing and who to. The new generation that is being spoiled by social networking and texting is setting up a new time where the main purpose of writing is speaking to an audience. They can develop tone and ethos to appeal to any audience depending on the views of the personnel. Truly I don’t see any relation between the two articles. Carr and Hedge’s articles are more closely related because they talk about reading and writing. Thompson’s article strictly focuses on the writing skills of the new generation and its ability to adapt. This new generation unlike the past generations will continue to write structured paragraphs and sentences in order to communicate with each other. The writings may be simple short hands or be structured like old writings, but they will be there and will be representing the new language that this generation has created and its ingenuity.