By Chad Williams, College Student
There’s a lot of talk about the media and how it is losing touch with the current generation. But, I think the media is finally realizing what people in my age range want to hear. We want to hear about the important issues and topics.
Kids like me are in the 18-to-25 age range, and that includes people like me who share common traits like being high school graduates who can’t buy beer, and hip professionals. We are a demographic that has been ignored for news for old people who are old. We might binge drink and party and stuff but we care about politics too. We want to know what politicians think about the most important issues like contraception and smoking marijuana, and not about boring stuff like economics, taxes, and social security. We don’t just want to hear politicians elaborating on the issues–we just want to hear them mention what the issues are.
But with CNN’s recent Youtube debates, the media is realizing that we are not only a group of interested and galvanized individuals, but we are pretty hip dudes too. We do stuff like download music, play video games, and get drunk. Finally, a candidate can answer a question from someone who shot a video and posted it on the internet so we can see some kid from the midwest chomping on an ear of corn as a tongue-in-cheek way of asking a question to a politician.
These lame and boring televised debates have used boring forms of question-asking like using a microphone (what is this, Phil Donahue?) or video footage not posted on the internet prior to its relevance. I feel that by having the questions being asked on Youtube that it is different because the video is posted on the internet and that makes it different from other videos that are not. It’s different.But the media needs to do more to cater to my demographic.
People my age want to know about the important issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. It doesn’t matter if we have a country where people can’t get a job, or can’t go to the doctor, or whether this country has a huge deficit driven by tons of military spending–as long as a candidate emphasizes the wedge issues, then America is as classy as my sister’s face after a vomiting climax to a night of partying.
Where do politicians stand on opinion and cultural-based issues that they really have no interest in? We want to know what politicians think about these issues, but it must be spoken to us with our collective demographic vernacular. The media needs to remember that we are just like adults only we want to be told what to think in a different way.
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