I Just wanted to pass this on...Hey! I Must Be Young!

Finding Political News Online, the Young Pass It On
by Brian Stelter for The New York Times

love this:

A December survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press looked broadly at how media were being consumed this campaign. In the most striking finding, half of respondents over the age of 50 and 39 percent of 30- to 49-year-olds reported watching local television news regularly for campaign news, while only 25 percent of people under 30 said they did.

KILL YOUR TELEVISION!
seriously...

MURDER YOUR NIGHTLY NEWS!
(or at least neglect to feed them your attention so they will wither and die, starved of the eyeballs they need to survive)

SMOTHER YOUR PUNDITS
(in bloggers and youtube, cuz bloggers have to provide LINKS and youtube vids don't repeat in an endless loop!)

Change will only happen when enough of us stop consuming the undercooked, overseasoned, and de-contextualized drivel the teevee people would have us believe is news (every damn one of 'em, CNN is no better than FOX, we must understand this) and we start nourishing ourselves with news they have not processed for us.

The blogs and news sites on the internet ain't perfect, but they're significantly less evil than what is available in any other medium.