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"Our democracy is on the brink of a crisis, David Mindich argues in Tuned Out. As more and more young people turn their backs on political news, America is seeing the greatest decline in informed citizenship in its history. The implications for overall civic engagement are also enormous." "Crisscrossing the country, from Boston to New Orleans and Los Angeles, Mindich has interviewed scores of young Americans about how they keep up with the news: young professionals, college students, and even some preteens. What he discovers is a group that knows less, cares less, votes less, and follows the news less than their elders do and less than their elders did. Noting that the problem is reaching almost unfathomable proportions (the median viewer age of network television news is now 60), Mindich explores the roots of the problem, including the powerful lure of entertainment, which in recent years has grown exponentially - from MTV and ESPN to Nakednews.com - far overshadowing serious news programs. The challenge, Mindich says, is to create a society in which young people feel that reading quality journalism is worthwhile. Some newspapers have responded to the problem by pandering, adding Britney Spears and subtracting John Ashcroft. But in trying to make news matter to young people, the author notes, they make it matter to no one. Tuned Out offers a number of innovative responses to this problem, from requiring every channel to carry news as part of its children's programming to transforming college admissions policies, to changing journalism itself."--BOOK JACKET.

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Tuned Out
2007, Oxford University Press
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Tuned out: why Americans under 40 don't follow the news
2005, Oxford University Press
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Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don't Follow the News
August 13, 2004, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
Cover of: Tuned out
Tuned out: why Americans under 40 don't follow the news
2004, Oxford University Press
in English

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New York

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Library of Congress
PN4731 .M49 2005, PN4731 .M49 2005eb

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E-book
Number of pages
172

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Open Library
OL24290434M
Internet Archive
tunedout00mind
ISBN 13
9780195161403
LCCN
2004046938
OCLC/WorldCat
54694722
OverDrive
62D79B1A-1718-42F8-973E-801C15B2E334

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Our democracy is on the brink of a crisis, David Mindich argues in Tuned Out. As more and more young people turn their backs on political news, America is seeing the greatest decline in informed citizenship in its history. The implications for overall civic engagement are also enormous. Crisscrossing the country, from Boston to New Orleans and Los Angeles, Mindich has interviewed scores of young Americans about how they keep up with the news: young professionals, college students, and even some preteens. What he discovers is a group that knows less, cares less, votes less, andfollows the news less than their elders do and less than their elders did...

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