Under 30?? How about if you are over 60? Disgusting, but NPR has always been under amazing pressure to be "fair and balanced" When I was a kid of about 45, I was invited to symposium on ethics in journalism at the Poynter Institute. At that I got into a huge fight with Bill Bussenburg about objectivity in reporting. My contention was that there could never be objectivity since you as a reporter - by the very act of choosing what you were going to include - who you were going to talk to, and what words they said that you choose to include in your story - by those acts you were already slanting the story to your feeling or art. So why even pretend? Do what you want - and be honest about it.
The notion that a blogger "under 30" would be more in touch with what's going on than a blogger over 30 is really nuts. It's insulting, and by the very act of asking for that type of person, it denigrates the very process of reporting. Milt "over the hill" Lee
