Young adults give newspapers scant notice

[DesertFox]

New York Times

With the United States military fighting a protracted war in Iraq and a wide-open presidential campaign already making headlines daily, Americans of all ages are interested in current affairs and are consuming news like never before, right?

Not so, especially not teenagers and young adults, according to a report released last week by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

In fact, most teenagers and adults 30 and younger are not following the news closely at all, the report, titled “Young People and News,” concluded. It is based on a national sample of 1,800 Americans that included teenagers, young adults aged 18 to 30 and older adults.

Thomas Patterson, a professor of government and the press at Harvard who conducted the survey, said that young people today do not make an appointment with news every day the way older adults do.

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[PrezLeefun]

Well in that event I am an exception.

[DesertFox]

Me, too. Every Sunday I race to the sports section, and I'm only 58.

[oldcoastie]

Remember: This is from a Harvard "professor" of government, whatever that is.

[BabyBeastie]

If the news was worth reading, I'm sure they could sell some newspapers that were worth READING.

Today, the newspaper is used mostly for lining bird cages, bedding for bums who sleep on park benches. Roll one up really tight and it becomes a makeshift weapon or maybe even emergency rain protection for your laptop!

Newspapers are still useful, just not in the same way they were before crappy reporting and the Internet.

[Madbomber]

Well being informed is usually a trait of a conservative, and being uninformed is usually a traid of a liberal. Most of these "kids" are more interested in sound bites and getting laid than they are in thier future, but as you age you start noticing that the government is taking about 40%+ of your pay for whatever reason and start paying attention to the "why". Its the same for every generation. I dont see why its a big surprize.

[garlicguy]

Me, too. Every Sunday I race to the sports section, and I'm only 58.

Being only 57, I'll race you for the commies. 'scuse me. They were formerly known as the comics.

[DoctorDoom]

Young adults give newspapers scant noticeThat's fully expected. The liberal ones are mostly gubmint skewl grajewits and are illiterate. The conservative ones wouldn't trust the bastards to get the date right.

The print media are passe.