Talking Retro

On the Media | May 5, 2011

Baby-boomer journalists have a knack for alluding to characters from vintage TV series, plots from obscure films, and political events from who-knows-when. Author Ralph Keyes says these “verbal fossils” make it more difficult for an entire generation of young readers to have any clue what's being discussed.

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