This piece is typical of People Magazine, not your publication's standards. Matthew Drudge is no more a modern-day Thomas Paine than my neighbor is Marcel Proust for belonging to the HTML Writer's Guild. Mr. Drudge is just the right person at the right time, and he's making a nice buck off it as well. Good for him, but he's neither a revolutionary nor a pioneer. I see what appears to be a glaring discrepancy in David Broder's comments in Michael Kramer's article.
Teenagers usually make the news only when they scurry from gunshots or score touchdowns.
But there is so much more that ought to come out and rarely does. As advisors to a teen-written news page printed regularly by The Bristol Press in Connecticut, we know that dozens of wonderful stories fall through the coverage cracks of most papers. Our student reporters, with plenty of guidance, scoop up some of them to produce stellar journalism that has won them state and even national acclaim. And so do their parents, teachers, principals, and plenty of other folks besides. Most of the papers that bother with a teen page of some sort dumb it down with the assumption that young people only want to read about the latest gory movie or one-hit band.