Professional Journalists, Take Note

What interested me in this article posted by Jonathon and Joseph Garcia in the RMN this morning was not so much the content, but the way in which they actually provided sources for their facts:

Less than half of all eligible 18-to-24-year-olds voted in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, a far cry from the 70 percent of older voters who went to the polls. According to the Web site www.stateofthevote.org/why.html, less than one-fifth of those in our age group voted in the 1998 congressional elections. In 1996, less than one-third went to the polls (www.cnn.com/ 2000/fyi/sb/06/21/youth. vote/). These numbers suggest a shocking underrepresentation of our age group in the political process, a demographic that is also systematically overlooked by politicians.

Note the references to websites. It seems like Metro State is teaching its students that it is important to actually have sources to back up your facts.

Hey, Littwin, Spencer, and Carman were they not teaching this stuff when you were in school?