{"id":5061,"date":"2006-10-04T15:18:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T15:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5061"},"modified":"2006-10-04T15:18:52","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T15:18:52","slug":"glasses-that-are-partly-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5061","title":{"rendered":"glasses that are partly full"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t mean to dwell too long on our new survey (described yesterday), but I find the press coverage an interesting study in subjectiveness. Based on the very same release and oral presentation …<\/p>\n

Matt Stearns and Rick Montgomery wrote in the Kansas City Star<\/a>: “Apathetic, detached? Not today?s young people. A study finds that 15- to 25-year-olds are more involved in their communities than expected.” Their lead is: “Turns out, the seminal rock band The Who was correct: Gloomy stereotypes about civic detachment to the contrary, the kids are <\/em>all right.”<\/p>\n

But David Alexander wrote in Reuters <\/a>(picked up in the Boston Globe and elsewhere: “Few U.S. youths involved in civic life: study.” His lead is: “Nearly two-thirds of young Americans are disengaged from political and civic life and only a quarter regularly vote, a survey released on Tuesday showed.”<\/p>\n

And the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> printed Matt Stearns’ piece under this headline: “Younger folks do their civic duties, a study confirms; Involvement for those 15 to 25 in some cases neared elders’ levels.”<\/p>\n

So which is it? All of the above, of course. It’s a mixed story, as we realized when we thought about how to pitch it. I did hope that the headlines would be positive (although I’m not at all surprised to see the negative ones). Perhaps there’s no one valid way to capture a complex picture in one short phrase, which is what a headline must be. But we think a positive summary is closer to the truth in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t mean to dwell too long on our new survey (described yesterday), but I find the press coverage an interesting study in subjectiveness. Based on the very same release and oral presentation … Matt Stearns and Rick Montgomery wrote in the Kansas City Star: “Apathetic, detached? Not today?s young people. A study finds that […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061","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=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}