A sign of trying too hard

A panel description from Library Journal's overview of BookExpo America, happening next month in LA:

"To Read or Not to Read: A Discussion of NEA Study Results and The Big Read...The National Education Association's 2007 report on reading was gloom and doom. Seems so many adults and especially teens are so hooked on crackberrys and video games that books take a backseat. NEA reps Sunil Iyengar, director of research and analysis, and literature director David Kipen will rap on the group's counterattack called The Big Read."

Um.
"Crackberry"??? For one, most teens can't *afford* a Blackberry, even in LA. They tend to get a txt phone (you know, with the QWERTY keyboard), which is a much different animal. Someone's been watching too much of The Hills.

"rap on"...wow, now I *know* someone's been watching too much of The Hills, or maybe 90210. I don't pretend to be hep to the lingo or anything, I know I'm waaaaay too old to sound like a 15 year old (though I have a bad habit of asking "what's up?" when someone comes to the desk in the library), and I'm one of the younger folks in library school (not even talking about the veteran librarians); so what the hell makes whoever wrote this think that librarians are going to connect to this blurb? Who is this supposed to be speaking to???
So something good came out of this mire: I'm now giggling maniacly over the idea of two old-fart dudes beat-boxing and laying down some mad rhymes about To Kill a Mockingbird or Dave Eggers. Yeah, that'll work...