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,
No comments:
Post a Comment