Really Morley Safer? Really???

So, I sat down in my business management class a couple days ago, and our teacher told us about a story 60 Minutes did on the Generation Y's about to hit the workforce. I'd first like to say this "piece of journalism" represents my generation as an absolutely lazy and worthless group of people that does nothing at work but sit around on "bean bags." This piece of journalism trashes Generation Y's. It absolutely trashes "us." To me, this piece of garbage should never have made it on air. This story aired to sell spots, to make money, and to please the people that watch 60 Minutes, not people 20-30 years old.

You can tell right off the bat how horribly this story represents "us" by listening to the anchor intro. "Stand back all bosses. A new breed of American worker is about to attack everything you hold sacred, from giving orders to your starched white shirt and tie."

I'm sorry Morley, but the last time I checked, I haven't heard of many millennials going into the workplace with machine guns and tanks to gun down their bosses. To be honest, this piece absolutely pissed me off when I watched it. I heard absolutely no factual information in the anchor intro, just a man who poorly explained the new generation up and coming. Morley wrote that anchor intro just to please the older generation that mainly watches the show. The piece shows the generation I'm a part of as cocky, brash, lazy, ignorant, and stupid. It sounds to me like somebody has some bitter feelings to the new journalists about to follow you. Times change man. A new generation will overtake mine someday as well. Hopefully, I won't feel as bitter about it as you apparently do.

But Morley, let me leave you with this thought. If the younger generation has ignorant and cocky characteristics and we know nothing about how the real world works, then you have many more ignorant and narcissistic traits yourself than any of "the new generation" kids will ever have. I think any person who writes a story like this needs to take a good hard look at themselves in the mirror and ask themselves, "Did I really just portray both sides of the story equally?" Come interview me on a topic like this. I'll give you a piece of my mind.


Take a look at part of the story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owwM6FpWWoQ
Apparently, we've never failed before either because our parents coddled us so much growing up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7iK__Z_Lw0


Morley Safer