Online youth need critical thinking skills
by Larry Magid
I both envy and worry about young people who are growing up in the age of the Internet.
I envy them for their lifelong access to a media that's diversified enough to bring them news, information, and opinion from an enormous number of sources.
There's something to be said for having access to thousands of media outlets. Unlike those of us who grew up in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, young people who smartly use the Internet to consume news today don't have to worry about everything being filtered by a small, elite, and typically white male cadre of journalists working for one of only three broadcast networks or one or two local newspapers. And it's no longer a one-way street. Today's news consumers can also be producers thanks to blogs, social-networking sites, YouTube, podcasting, and microblogs like Twitter.
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