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@ Rachael Dumigan
Media Spokesperson, The British Youth Council
Young people are getting a bad rap in the news media at the moment – either they are “hoodies” ignoring their ASBOs or they are lazy, overweight and sit in front of computer games all day shirking physical... Show more »Young people are getting a bad rap in the news media at the moment – either they are “hoodies” ignoring their ASBOs or they are lazy, overweight and sit in front of computer games all day shirking physical activity. Do you think the news media ignores positive stories about young people in favour of sensationalised tales of antisocial behaviour and binge drinking or is the future of Britain really that bad?
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Answered by Rachael Dumigan
Definitely. Through the BYC Respect campaign we carried out a survey of 1,000 young people of which 750 were from the UK aged between 12 and 26 and their view on how they saw themselves portrayed by the media was that they were always negatively stereotyped. The survey also looked at coverage of young people in the news media and it should that out of every 5 news stories, 4 are negative.
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