{"id":4243,"date":"2003-07-15T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2003-07-15T11:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2003-07-15T11:24:59","modified_gmt":"2003-07-15T11:24:59","slug":"the-young-dont-read-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4243","title":{"rendered":"the young don&#8217;t read newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to CIRCLE&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/PopUps\/Fact%20sheet%20-%20Media%20Use%20Among%20Young%20People.pdf\">fact<\/p>\n<p>sheet on media use<\/a>, this is the trend in newspaper readership since 1972:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/images\/mediause.GIF\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>We know that newspaper reading correlates with many forms of civic engagement,<\/p>\n<p>so this trend is worrisome. (It is also very bad news for the newspaper industry.<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t they do something aggressive to reverse the decline, like giving millions<\/p>\n<p>of free newspapers to schools?) I think one piece of the problem is that young<\/p>\n<p>people don&#8217;t learn how to read a newspaper. My own experience as a <a href=\"hsclassthread.htm\">volunteer<\/p>\n<p>high school teacher<\/a> has taught me that the &quot;inverted pyramid&quot; style<\/p>\n<p>of journalistic writing assumes a lot of background knowledge, and thus makes<\/p>\n<p>news stories baffling to inexperienced teenagers. They can learn to read newspapers,<\/p>\n<p>but they don&#8217;t pick up this skill by osmosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CIRCLE&#8217;s new fact sheet on media use, this is the trend in newspaper readership since 1972: We know that newspaper reading correlates with many forms of civic engagement, so this trend is worrisome. (It is also very bad news for the newspaper industry. Why don&#8217;t they do something aggressive to reverse the decline, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocating-civic-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}