Tallulah: The columnist attributes the decline of interest in novels to consumerism, technology, and the laziness of people who prefer watching television to reading a novel  However, in reaching this conclusion, the columnist has overlooked important evidence
It is surely relevant that contemporary fiction is frequently of poor quality -- indeed, much of it is meaningless and depressing -- whereas many good newspapers, magazines, professional journals, and books of other types are currently available
The view expressed by the columnist was formed without considering all of the pertinent evidence.