I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
Young people are so often dissed by the media.
Well, the fact that the news industry doesn't have enough money to only send salaried staff to war zones means there is an enormous, wide-open opportunity for young people who want to be on staff and don't know how to get there.
Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.
Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.
I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.
I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.