Here's what Boris Johnson has to say on youth representation in the media: Our Key Observations:
- Adults and young people feel that young people are not portrayed accurately/ fairly in the media
- Hardly any young peoples voices in the stories written about them
- Young people are judged as both adults and young people
- Very young children are being criminalised/demonised for being just naughty children
- Adults do not feel that their actual experience of young people matches with what they read/ see in the media – that in fact it is much better
- Adults think that there is more pressure on young people today than there was 10 years ago
- Young people and adults feel that young peoples views should be included in stories about them
Read about why young journalist Nick Cooper feels now is the time for young people to start speaking up about their own experience and views in the media, rather than depending on the narrow band of stories that currently make it (namely teenage pregnany and violence.)
Watch a film young people from Thame and Abingdon have made, which explores reasons for the negative perceptions of young people.
