July 12, 2008

damn kids

I'm not convinced.

The following stat, taken from an LA Times book review, may be true, but I still think a lot of we young folks are equally ambivalent about American Idol and the U.S. House membership. When asked in a journalism lecture last year if we read celebrity gossip about Brittney and Paris, our answer was a resounding "no."

What does it all mean? Not sure, but I doubt celebs will sell newspapers. Here's the stat:
"You are six times more likely to know who the latest American Idol is than you are to know who the speaker of the U.S. House is..."

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