Wednesday, May 7, 2014

FOX - The new ememy - The youth of today. Interesting info

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/fox-news-bizarre-crusade-convince-viewers-children-are-dangerous?page=0%2C1&akid=11782.294211.0wrD2X&rd=1&src=newsletter989688&t=5

The main strategy for stoking hatred of young people is, unsurprisingly, rank dishonesty. Statistics tell us that the millennial generation and the high school kids coming up right behind them are harder-working, more studious, more sexually responsible and less like to screw up their lives than the generations before. Teen pregnancy and drug use have been in a rapid decline in the past 20 years. High school graduation rates are hitting record levels. Crime, which is usually a province of the young, hit its highest rates when the baby boomers were young, and has been in decline ever since. The only problem with kids nowadays is that they’re a bunch of goody-two-shoes that are making older generations look lazy and criminal.
But if you tune into Fox News, you’d get a totally different impression, one of youth out of control. Take, for instance, Sean Hannity’s ridiculous spring break coverage. Even though spring break is a tradition that’s been around for four generations now,

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