Generation gap | Dear Channel 4 boss, all Gen Z know is how to debate

Channel 4 CEO Alex Mahon recently made headlines for saying that Gen Z – those born between 1997 and 2012 – don't know how to disagree or debate. Mahon attributes this lack of capability to disagree to the use of short-form videos, largely on TikTok and Instagram.

‌“What we are seeing with young people who come into the workplace, Gen Z, particularly post-pandemic and with this concentration of short-form content, is that they haven’t got the skills to debate things,” Mahon said to a crowd at the Royal Television Society Conference in Cambridge.