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Students Could Care Less About The First Ammendment



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Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:50 pm
Nate says...



Link to article on msnbc.com:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6888837/

The article is pretty poorly done and misleading, but I couldn't find another example on the web. On CNN, though, the numbers were something like 34% of high-school students think the first ammendment goes too far, and 37% think that there should be government approval of newspaper stories. That is ridiculous.

Personally, I blame it on a number of factors (not least the flaws of our education system), but this is highly disturbing under any context. Although, I do wonder what the results of the poll would've been in past years (it could turn out that these numbers have been fairly consistent since 1900). But this just shocked me when I heard it...
  








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