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I hate these sorts of "outreach to young people" PR events. They not only reveal how totally out of touch and insincere politicians are with respect to youth issues, but also how scatter-brained and incoherent young people are. Seriously, trying to follow the thought process of this "article" while being beaten in the face with rich media was physically painful.

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i dislike the PR event, but this article is not scatterbrained. it's casting the negative reactions to their interviews as a battle for legitimacy in news media, and it's focusing heavily on the generational shift. he makes some pretty valid points about how younger people respond to mainstream news. whether it's accurate that youtubers will become the new legitimacy is hard to say, and the blogger has a obvious bias on that, but i found a lot of this resonating with me

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