"If you read the newspapers, they're throwing out waves of boomers and pre-boomers while there is no young voice. They have an unlimited supply of Helen Thomases, Dan Rathers, even Walter Cronkites, Jimmy Carters, Jesse Jacksons, Larry Kings, etc., while there are no young fresh voices. It's as though they're trying to preserve the consciousness of the '60s as the perpetual culture."
This is a great example of how effective the media is with many Americans.
You just named some of the best examples of the leadership that is responsible for America's problems.
Not a one of them is a boomer, now keep working on the list of leaders from the 50s 60s 70s and 80s and you'll see much the same. (real leaders,not college activists or guitar players, or young actresses, although, even Jane Fonda isn't a boomer)
Years after the 60s, the Vietnam war, Roe vs Wade,"the Great Society", Camelot, after all that, in 1980 Ronald Reagan was elected, the boomers ranged in age in 1980 from 34 to 16.
I don't dislike people just because they're old; I think they ought to be regarded on individual merit.
But I can tell when grouchy old people are just grouchy old people -- and not the icons of American culture and society the media makes them out to be. In the days before extended lifespans, such people were just regarded as senile, bad company, and not honored for their flatulence.