Don't people read anymore?

And what's good for the goose is good for the gander. My puns are running afowl of the terms of service. I'll flock off now.

Nobody uses e mail anymore except old people (of which I am one, I guess).

Vanilla is too bland.

People tend to form an opinion on what the message will say, based upon the subject line, or maybe the first line of the post. They will then skim over the rest and stick with their original perception. Unless something really jumps out at them, they'll never put much thought into the content of the message.

People often do the same things with news stories. They read a headline, get a point of view, and then maybe read the first few paragraphs, mostly to re-enforce their preconception, and never really confirm that the headline projected the proper impression of the content.

real meat of the article tends to reside. No matter what the top part reads, the nitty gritty is found there.

Especially when I see a headline that doesn't make much sense, or if the first few paragraphs seem to be talking to the conclusion before discussing the context, I'll often skip ahead and read the last two paragraphs. It can often give a completely different impression of the beginning of a story when one knows the "punchline" so to speak.

in journalism courses.

The inverted pyramid where the most important information is at the top of the article because many people don't read much further than that.

TV or movie adaptation these days: books are more of a time commitment, and not as social/interactive as viewing something with friends...

I can only hope people read them. Judging from some of the responses, I'd have to say not the whole letter.

or a tweet.

more exhaustively than anything else ever written. It's been read by the Eff Bee AI. But the FBI's salary grade is above ours, and we know that most unsolicited email is requests for business or money or our SSNs. But the Benghazi Committee was running out of things they were pretending to do, so they sent off for some emails, hoping, as always, that a Clinton would incriminate herself and hand the evidence over to them. The Republicans aren't even smart enough to think like competent criminals. The shallowness of the games they play cannot be underestimated.