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I don't understand. The way I read the text one group was simply given a free subscription no? They weren't made to read anything?

• eightysixfour 27d ago
  Free subscription + a media education module for their teachers. Without making them read it, they showed high usage of the free subscription.
  • Blikkentrekker 27d ago
    Yeah, I got that from the abstract too. I just don't understand where the “making teenagers read newspapers” angle comes from.
    • neehao 27d ago
      good point about the title.
    • jelly 27d ago
      There's a more subtle form of 'make' where you set conditions to induce a result. The fact is, giving anything away for free will increase its consumption.
      • Blikkentrekker 26d ago
        Yes it will. But that doesn't mean that “making students read” doesn't arouse a very different impression. “Making students do homework.” does not imply “Making it free for them to do it.”.
      • eudamoniac 26d ago
        Like just having a broom in the house makes my kids sweep the floors? There's no way to interpret the headline that makes any sense as truth.