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Tuned Out

By David T. Z. Mindich

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Publish Date

2007

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Language

eng

Pages

172

Description:

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...