Shout Out To My Homes, David Brooks

So I caught this blogad for "Newz Crew -- A Global Youth & NewsHour Youth Circle." (Yeah, they don't know what it means either.) The Newz Crew appears to be some sort of funky fresh news (sic) website for yoot which is affiliated with PBS's Newshour with Jim Lehrer. Yo.

The site's content is supposedly provided by high school students, but it's got a strong whiff of earnest middle-aged dogooder:

"What is the Newz Crew?

"This project is an innovative, online program by and for youth using the Internet and news media to develop and promote media literacy and youth engagement in the democratic process.

"Come again?"

And it's being promoted through "ad banners on political Web sites, including Washington Monthly and American Conservative," the favorite internet hangouts of teenz everywhere.

Scrilla for the venture is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, the Surdna Foundation and the Time Warner Foundation. And viewers like you.