Role model opposites: Snooki & Kirk Cousins

HICKS: Role model opposites: Snooki & Kirk Cousins - Washington Times
"I don’t know what is more depressing: the tanked economy or a nation enthralled with the antics of a dozen undereducated, overindulged, terminal adolescents whose only unifying traits are their ethnic heritage and a colossal sense of entitlement.
Perhaps what is most incomprehensible to me is that the entitled attitudes of the “Jersey Shore” characters are expected, and even admired.
Five years ago, a survey of Americans found 83 percent believed our youth felt more entitled than 10 years previously.
And that was long before MTV’s “Jersey Shore” elevated “sense of entitlement” to “rock star” status.

In the 12- to 34-year-old demographic, the “Jersey Shore” season opener scored an 8.2 rating, or 6.5 million viewers.
If only a fraction of those young people instead watched a video of another 20-something American guy: Michigan State University quarterback Kirk Cousins."