TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' (SORT OF)

The new McCarthyism?

By Beverly Jenkins, 18

Is Lil Wayne the new Bob Dylan?

By Jonathan Gainer, 17

Apatow vs. Allen

By Nick Greven, 18

September 7, 2009

By Nick Greven, 18, Beverly Jenkins, 17, Jonathan Gainer, 17

With some inspiration from Youth Radio’s NPR series What’s the new What? Y-Press reporters are exploring trends in culture and politics that's relevant to their generation and how this compares and even mimics the past.

These topics range from whether Lil’ Wayne is the new Bob Dylan, or is film maker Judd Apatow is modern day Woody Allen and finally is America experiencing a new kind of McCarthyism with the 2001 signing of the Patriotic Act?

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