Reply #11: OMG, the future is not looking very "bright", is it?

[54anickel]

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...Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories. :wow:

"These results are not only disturbing; they are dangerous," said Hodding Carter III, president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which sponsored the $1 million study. "Ignorance about the basics of this free society is a danger to our nation's future."

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"Schools don't do enough to teach the First Amendment. Students often don't know the rights it protects," Linda Puntney, executive director of the Journalism Education Association, said in the report. "This all comes at a time when there is decreasing passion for much of anything. And, you have to be passionate about the First Amendment."

Yeah, and do you think they'll start teaching more of it now that they are "teaching to the test" sanctioned by the gubbermint? :eyes:

Bye, bye America - was great knowin' ya.