Age presentation

How teenagers are represented in the media.

Young people in their teen years or even in early twenties are usually represented in more of a negative way than positive. For example teenagers are represented as people who are in gangs, are always out at night late causing trouble, always fighting, always drinking and smoking and doing drugs. However that is more of a stereotype because whenever we see different things on the news they are most likely correct and it's another occasion that a young person has done something wrong. But not every young person is like this. For example there are young adults who do good things and like to keep everyone happy but we don't see this in the media because it isn't anything interesting to report.

One occasion that represented young people as bad is the London and Croydon riots. They would show all the young people who were involved and this gives the young people a bad reputation even though there may have been a small majority of young people involved but the media chose to show those out of everyone else.

Young people don't really get recognised for doing anything good because that is "expected from them" but whenever something bad happens it is in the news as it is more interesting to hear than someone doing something good.







http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hoodies-louts-scum-how-media-demonises-teenagers-1643964.html

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