Nation Shudders Response

This article, written by The Onion, was created to point out how Americans have lost the ability to find the meaning behind a large group of text.  The author was stating that without the help of highlighting, bolding, or italicizing readers are unwilling to invest the needed amount of time to be able to understand what is being said.  The article was written to make the reader question how they read long documents.  Do they skim through it until they see something in bold?  This article is arguing that everyone needs shortcuts to while reading to be able to quickly grasp understand what they are reading.  The author took the idea that our society was loosing its ability fully read anything and created a story about the world going into chaos because one block of text had no short cuts for the reader.  This newspaper often has a sarcastic tone of voice and often slightly insult the reader, which are both characteristics in this article.