text: how does public literacy play its role in modern american culture? is it tasteless, how is it manipulative? how does it affect this society's ideas...? i'm assuming you mean literature. most authors are liberals and they find ways to make their ideas look good. an example of this is the book from the 60's, peyton place. in the book, a man is committing incest with his daughter and the author manipulates us into cheering the doctor who performs an illegal abortion on her when she gets pregnant. what isn't brought up is the fact that her father could have been stopped if it was known that she was pregnant. since it wasn't reported, he got away with it. also, the humanity and innocence of the baby is totally ignored.       p.s. i love spell check!