Newsday
"[Young people] can't abide the standard network news programs and actively disdain local news," writes
Verne Gay. "What
Walter Cronkite was to their parents and grandparents, Comedy Central's
Jon Stewart is to them." Disc jockey
Drew Appelbaum, 25, says his generation misses Stewart's nightly reports. "We're slightly lost. I've been going as far as listening to NPR on my way home."
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MTV recruits 51 young people to cover the 2008 elections (AP)
