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As a 20-something in the news industry, I've seen my fair share of older, supposedly wiser veterans in the business take a stab at my generation. They write their op-eds and columns about how what we, collectively as a group, have achieved falls far short of the glory days of generations gone by.
From the flappers to the lost generation to the 60s rebels, Generation X and Y just simply can't compare with our contributions of the grunge movement, Napster and Myspace.
Now usually I just let these accusations slide down my tattooed and Nirvana t-shirt clad back. Time has a way of skewing the truth and hindsight isn't always 20/20.
But every once in awhile, a commentary comes along that, to put it in my generation's term, disses the youth today in such an unwarranted way, I feel I have to make a rebuttal.
And New York Times' Thomas Friedman's op-ed on Oct. 10 did just that.
In the article, Mr. Friedman calls us the "Quiet Generation," essentially saying that while we...
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