The Media often does not portray teens in a accurate light. We certainly cover High School athletics and when we write stories about that. Teens are portrayed as goal oriented and overcoming many obstacles to succeed.
But on the flip side, today's young people are seen as shopaholics who are dependent on their cell phones and IM. High achieving youth involved in community service and those that help out younger teens or who are religious or spiritual are almost non-existent in the media. Most of the time you see teens, they are being charged with a crime.
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I agree with Edwina. The images seem to be extreme - either tuned out or extremely tuned in. What I've found by becoming familiar with youth media groups is that there is a lot of power in the work that the youth themselves produce - it's sort of fun and wild and experimental but also focuses a lot on 'serious' issues that we as a society face...
yeah....for sure we need some Teen heroes....and stories whrere others can blog on the issues
We could use heroes throughout the media industry. And not just teenagers.
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