Using YouTube www.youtube.com as my starting point, I found a Podcast that spoke about literacy in America. It was an ABC News broadcast titled "Illiteracy in America", that only ran several minutes, but it was a powerful segment that interviewed several women about the trials and tribulations they had to endure being functionally illiterate. Much of it was focused on medical issues that these women faced, avoiding doctors visits just because they could not fill out the forms. The segment ends with some of the women having learned how to read and then using that to help others that were in the same situation they had just graduated from.
I chose this podcast because it spoke to the librarian in me wanting to reach out and help those that are too scared to reveal their secret of illiteracy. It was also gratifying to find a national broadcast that was advocating literacy instead of ignoring it and treating it as a problem that does not exist.
The podcast can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7nCfRDCcT4 .
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