Bye Bye, Boomers

For years, control of America's news and culture industries has been firmly in the clutches of baby boomers. But a new generation of media-makers is stretching its legs, and it won't be long before references to The Graduate are replaced by references to The Breakfast Club. Slate columnist Jack Shafer joins Brooke Gladstone to mull over some other possible signs of generational baton-passing. (Transcript and mp3.)

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