When the theorized begins to materialize.

In order to come up with some of the "crazy" things we do, we often actually do stay up to date on the current events from around the world. While searching a few news websites I came across an article from CNN about a survay of American highschool youth. The survay detailed precisly what is to be feared. The increasing apathetic nature of today's youth. The scariest part is that the apathy is directed (if that is possible) towards the removal of rights and freedoms. For example, "Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval." This strikes me as shocking. It seems that the youth, those that I had assumed to be those most open minded and idealistic are not exactly what I had assumed. I then ask you the people who might read this what you would think about the removal or manipulaton of the right to free speech or access to information? It may not seem too bad to some, but the removal of this right can lead into other things. If you lose the right to know whats going on then just about anything can happen and you will have no way of knowing. If you are saying to yourself, "how can the media be controlled it is huge", then you need to look at this chart and well, get a look at how complicated this really is.

http://www.mediachannel.org/ownership/chart.shtml

Also, here is the article. You can read it and make your own conclusions.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/01/31/students.amendment.ap/index.html