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...journalist he's met only an hour before, Travolta says, "Stand up." When a movie star of three decades' eminence tells me to rise, I obey, and I'm now facing Travolta, nearly nose to nose. He clamps me in a python embrace. His blue eyes and soft voice start to flutter. "Oh, you came here to give me my Oscar!" he whispers in a dewy approximation of Stanwyck's purr to Henry Fonda in The Lady Eve (right before she devours him). Without easing his grip on me-he's still in the moment 25 years ago-he says...
...fact that soft news is far more popular than hard news was a relatively unconfirmed discovery prior to the survey, Patterson said. Each respondent was asked a few questions about current events at the time of their response; on issues ranging from the British government’s planned withdrawal of troops from Iraq to the death of Anna Nicole Smith...
...even though soft news rules among the masses, it still “sticks out relatively more for young people than older people,” said the report’s author, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press Thomas E. Patterson...
...Young people are more likely to get a news story from someone else, which is surprising, because other surveys had suggested that older people talked more about news amongst themselves,” Patterson said. “That was particularly true in the case of soft news stories—many of them circulated by word of mouth...
Patterson also said that one reason young adults seem to latch on to soft news more than hard news is that they “don’t have an easy way to process the issues of public affairs...