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KFC has become the latest major brand to begin serving Coca-Cola products instead of PepsiCo beverages, joining other large chains that have made the switch. Marriott hotels and Costco food courts have also moved to Coca-Cola in recent years, continuing a shift away from Pepsi at high-profile foodservice accounts.
Journalist James Marriott's book 'The New Dark Ages: The End of Reading and the Dawn of a Post-Literate Society' argues that reading built modern civilization, including science and democracy, and that its decline threatens rational thought. Marriott contends that even popular fiction engages readers with complex ideas in ways film, television and video games cannot replicate.
Times columnist James Marriott has expanded his viral essay on declining reading habits into a new book, 'The New Dark Ages,' published this week. The reviewer, a fellow journalist and friend of Marriott's, describes it as an entertaining but troubling 50,000-word argument about how digital media, especially YouTube, is reshaping childhood attention and literacy for the worse.