A Geriatric Press

The Millennial generation is critically important in 2008 and will become increasingly central to American politics for the next several decades (for some reasons why, see Friday's podcast). It should be a scandal, then, that the mainstream press not only doesn't recognize the Millennial factor but manages to ignore it when it's the central aspect of a story they report. Case in point: today's NYT piece by Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny on Obama's 50 state strategy. If it weren't for Millennials Obama's effort is merely a curiosity — pretty much as this piece reports — but taking Millennials into account one sees what the story really means: Obama is building a base of Democratic Party participation that goes well past this election cycle. Is the mainstream blind, hopelessly stupid, or what?