Because conventional writers might be denied an increase in readership? This argument is lazy at best.
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I don't believe that reading is declining around the world, and I don't believe that honoring Dylan dishonors novelists or poets.
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booooooooo
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next year
#NobelPrize to a twitter user for his tweets! Even#NobelDeLiteratura is seeing word count it seems!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@annanorthtweets I understand your argument, but respectfully disagree. Your grievances are archaic and narrow-minded.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Reading is not in decline. How amazing, that you assume the committee didn't think this through, at least not properly.
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surely, you understand that the aim of the prize was not to steer the sale / price of books.
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Forget the fact that Dylan is part of an oral storytelling tradition that predates the written word by tens of thousands of years.
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*eyeroll* this is just authors seeking to delegitimize certain forms of literature and promote their own.
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Your declining readership NYT will lead to your demise...pic.twitter.com/VkNit95xqC
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Bob Dylan Put Music to His story's it is Obvious those who are Objecting haven't Heard any Bob Dylan
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NYT editor: "get someone to write some polemic shit on this Nobel Prize Dylan thing"
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This is laughable at best.
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Well written! However, the mission of the Nobel Prize committee is not to increase readership.
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The people deciding who gets Nobel prizes have been acting in a peculiar manner for decades & against the Nobel values
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exactly, we don't want ordinary people actually talking about the prize for once. Keep it in your own little club.
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