The new, newer, newest method to reach the youth/netroots
On Friday a BBC report on new youth media venture Scoop08, that describes itself as "a new kind of newspaper," caught my eye. The site launched yesterday on the 4th. The BBC story provides the following lede:
With a year to go before the 2008 US presidential elections, young Americans are poised to mark their growing engagement in politics with an ambitious online news site.
Really? Young America is going to mark its engagement through a website? A website that at the time the article was written had yet to go live and as of today has almost no content? Ah, were it only so easy for a generation to take a stand and make its voice heard.
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