Feeling happy? Cheerful? Optimistic?
Then clearly you haven’t read the Knight Foundation’s First Amendment study. University of Connecticut researchers interviewed over 100,000 high school students, and found that only half of them believed newspapers should publish articles without government approval. (Oddly, 58% believe that student newspapers should be able to publish without the principal looking over their shoulders.)
There’s other wonderfully depressing news — including the fact that only two-thirds of students who hadn’t taken courses about the media or free speech believe that people should be allowed to express unpopular opinions.
Leaders and voters of tomorrow, folks. Where could they be getting these ideas?
Maybe the 57% of school principals who did not agree that musicians should be allowed to sing songs with potentially offensive lyrics.
Like, say, “teach the children well.”
