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All made possible because of what I call the Dumbing Down of America -- those who live for programming such as "Dancing with the Stars".
Bob Cesca: The Very Serious Debate, Starring The Very Serious George & Charlie 2008
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See, for example, Rick Shenkman's piece in yesterday's Boston Globe titled The Dumbing Down of Voters "."
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It has been afforded a degree of critical respect extraordinary enough to rank it as a benchmark in the development of a process that our great-grandchildren, who had better be smarter than we are, will likely identify as the Dumbing of America.
The Young Pretender Kempton, Murray 1981
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When he received a U.S. National Book Awards lifetime achievement award, literary Critic Harold Bloom wrote an Op-Ed piece for the Boston Globe called Dumbing Down American Readers.
Archive 2007-06-01 Stephanie 2007
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When he received a U.S. National Book Awards lifetime achievement award, literary Critic Harold Bloom wrote an Op-Ed piece for the Boston Globe called Dumbing Down American Readers.
50 Things about a Legend and the Passing of a Friend Stephanie 2007
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It’s called the Dumbing down of America, the network news executives realize that a story that is more like a soap opera, no real depth to it, simple to follow plays out to the american people so much better than say a story about a judge shooting down the administrations illegal spying program or a story about another hundred or so dead civilians in Iraq.
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Senator "Dumbing" and I do mean Dumb, you are narrow minded and cannot hold a candle to Justice Ginsburg's intellect and her overall contribution to American society and American Jurisprudence.
CNN Political Ticker 2009
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Dumbing-down can result in better credibility and frankly sounding like a real person.
Land Short-Term Work With A Dumbed Down Résumé | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Dumbing down a résumé isn't the wisest move [tr. im] cmart2112
Land Short-Term Work With A Dumbed Down Résumé | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Dumbing down our society and cashing in on bogus promises to make the world a better place.
AIG Capitalism=Greed John Storhm 2009
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