I was personally insulted by this stereotyping contained in the following passage in “Bad News” on how technologically clueless my generation is: “(if you’ve ever tried to teach someone over 50 to transfer digital picture files from a camera to a computer, you can probably attest to this). I am a news junkie, and agree that the article makes many good points. . But I’m writing this note on my laptop, which is accessing the web wirelessly from my office but could do as easily from home on the in-home wireless system I set up myself. I am equipped with a Blackberry, iPod and a digital camera, and I can and do import, export and edit digital images. So don’t kiss off the boomer demographic and hopelessly out of touch with technolgoy. However, along with my technosavvy, I also am equipped with skepticism about the provenance of a lot of the stuff I see on the web. I’m trying to pass that skepticism along to college students, although I often despair. If this generation of college students remains as uninsterested and impervious to things like wars, epidemics, natural disasters,elections, terrorism and other “hard news” as they seem, then we should all be afraid –very afraid– for the future of the country.

I was personally insulted by this stereotyping contained in the following passage in “Bad News” on how technologically clueless my generation is: “(if you’ve ever tried to teach someone over 50 to transfer digital picture files from a camera to a computer, you can probably attest to this). I am a news junkie, and agree that the article makes many good points. . But I’m writing this note on my laptop, which is accessing the web wirelessly from my office but could do as easily from home on the in-home wireless system I set up myself. I am equipped with a Blackberry, iPod and a digital camera, and I can and do import, export and edit digital images. So don’t kiss off the boomer demographic and hopelessly out of touch with technolgoy. However, along with my technosavvy, I also am equipped with skepticism about the provenance of a lot of the stuff I see on the web. I’m trying to pass that skepticism along to college students, although I often despair. If this generation of college students remains as uninsterested and impervious to things like wars, epidemics, natural disasters,elections, terrorism and other “hard news” as they seem, then we should all be afraid –very afraid– for the future of the country.