As the credit crunch bites and advertising revenues plummet, it might not be long until these "worthless" young people have unemployed journalists working alongside them.
TUESDAY - I'd stayed up most of the night last week to watch Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic Convention. It's impossible not to be moved by the whole occasion. Our political leaders could learn a thing or two from his campaign about how to re-engage young people in the political process.
But today the US elections give me an uneasy feeling about the way children and families are being used. We've already had Obama using his children to show what a united family they are. We then discover that Bristol Palin, the 17-year-old pregnant daughter of John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin, is to keep the baby and marry the father (I can't imagine there was much choice about that).
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