Teenagers in the media

Teenagers are depicted as knife wielding holligans who have know respect for anything, would rob there own nan and have sex with everything in sight. the media might actually be right. It's just that some people mainly them who think its wrong that they are depicted this way. The media has no moralls, which is obvious by the things that are printed and uploaded on the internet. I'm gonna try and tell you why they are seen this.


Kidulthood potrays teenagers as destructive, angry criminals. this was a popular film and gave a lot of people the wrong impression

american pie is about teenagers going round making as much disturbance as possible and being reckless and having as much sex as possible. not all teenagers are like this, they are called patrick grigg and various other names.

Teenagers in tv shows


the inbetweeners is a show about four teenagers, they are shown to be wanting to have sex all the time and are idiots mainly neil


The simpsons is another show that depicts teenagers and young children as troublesome  miscreants. Bart Simpson is always causing trouble. The bullies and nelson are also characters that have seen to be drinking and grafitiing

The news has given teenagers a very bad reputation. There are always storys about teenagers getting in to trouble. these teenagers are not the majority but the majority are tarnished with the same label of being destriuctive and bad.

 The fire at mill hill underneath the M1.

This fire was very serious and had a lot of consequences for the people involved who were all teenagers. This brought up lots of storys on the news and in newspapers about how teenagers were not to be trusted and that all teenagers were like this, which is not true.

Conclusion

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A small majority of  teenagers aren actually what the media present them as. The media has done well to put a bad name to all tenagers.