Right... leave it to MTV to represent and report on the positions of my (and our) generation. The article on boortz.com quotes rather unfavorable polls from the research department of MTV, proving little more than where the lowest common denominator really does lie.... and it's in front of the hypnotic glow of their precious MTV.
So, I would like to offer up my opinion into the debate. I agree that fewer young people are going to be voting this year, but I don't think that it's because of ignorance or even disinterest as was suggested by Boortz. I think that the media frenzy of an election that is going on right now has been the first opprotunity for an entire generation of intelligent young people to see exactly how rediculous american politics really are. I think that somewhere between digging for scandals of the past and making false promises to the future, someone forgot what the point was.
Does anyone else see a sort of disturbing irony here? Here we have the news, who I thought was here to present the "facts" to the viewing public so they will know what's going on in the world around them. However, they're now boasting the technology to alter what becomes presented as "fact". What's worse is that they claim to be able to do this without anyone being able to tell the difference between reality, and what might just be in their best interest. How long 'till we can file the 10'oclock news under Fiction???
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Right ... leave it to MTV to represent and report on the positions of my (and our) generation. The article on boortz.com quotes rather unfavorable polls from the research department of MTV, proving little more than where the lowest common denominator really does lie .... and it's in front of the hypnotic glow of their precious MTV.
So, I would like to offer up my opinion into the debate. I agree that fewer young people are going to be voting this year, but I don't think that it's because of ignorance or even disinterest as was suggested by Boortz. I think that the media frenzy of an election that is going on right now has been the first opprotunity for an entire generation of intelligent young people to see exactly how rediculous american politics really are. I think that somewhere between digging for scandals of the past and making false promises to the future, someone forgot what the point was.
Does anyone else see a sort of disturbing irony here? Here we have the news, who I thought was here to present the "facts" to the viewing public so they will know what's going on in the world around them. However, they're now boasting the technology to alter what becomes presented as "fact". What's worse is that they claim to be able to do this without anyone being able to tell the difference between reality, and what might just be in their best interest. How long 'till we can file the 10'oclock news under Fiction???