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| Posted: September 18, 2007 |
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Generation Next is a term for the 42 million 16-to-25 year olds who watched the Twin Towers collapse, experienced the shootings at Virginia Tech University, grew up online and statistically speaking are better educated than any other generation in history. |
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| Lisa Lane from Dallas asks: |
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| Do you think it was possible that blue-blood backgrounds or nostalgia tainted your team's ability to properly research Gen Next? Each person of color profiled represented "ghetto life." We saw no one who resembled the black people in our lives. |
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| Judy Woodruff responds: |
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 Thanks for your comments; I appreciate your taking the effort to share this with me. And I can see how you derived this impression if you watched the second hour as a stand-alone report. First, please see my note to Ms. Tiscareno. I would urge you to look at the full two hours of our documentary efforts, because between part one, which aired in January 2007, and 2.0, which aired in September 2007, we believe we produced a fair look at the younger Generation. It is impossible to reflect every trait and every characteristic of a generation of 42 million in two hour-long documentaries, but I encourage you to look at the whole body of our efforts, including a series of reports we did for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, on PBS, and for National Public Radio's Morning Edition, to see the fuller portraits we presented of the generation. These are all available for listening and reading, on the website: pbs.org/newshour, when you click on "Generation Next." We were acutely aware throughout of how diverse this generation is; indeed that is the main thing that sets it apart. We believe our goal was to present as complete a picture as possible, and we ultimately chose the profiles we did, in each hour, based on how the stories wove together. |
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