Very interesting question.
YouTube, Yahoo, My Space, Google, Wikipedia and similar sites are making huge inroads in information dissemination to the youth, Gen Xer's of the world.
There are very few filters on these sites to test what get passed off as "truth" or "facts" so a lot of crap needs to be looked at and absorbed
These sites have very little blog like interaction to reign in the obvious BS as FR does to do that for them.
In the long run I thinks its a good thing because the more BS people are exposed to the more they actually want to be informed, it is better than the days people swallowed what Uncle Walt said hook, line and sinker without question.
As an example, I have 4 grown adult kids in the 20's. All of them have become very wary of what gets passed off as news
Perhaps that's more attributable to their DAD's EXAMPLE than it is representative of typical 20-somethings.
The 20-somethings I've seen seem pretty damn gullible about what gets passed off onto them.