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How many articles, songs, movies and news stories have you seen or read that demonise teens? Now how many have you seen that praise and honour teens? The second question would be hard to answer because of how common it is for the media to ‘shame’ teenagers. After exploring several styles and examples of adolescents in the media, I have concluded that the way teenagers are represented is unfair and inaccurate.

An article published by The Independent UK states that “These statistics were extracted from an article from the popular news site in the United Kingdom, Independent UK, which recently published an article about the portrayal of teens. Many more internet articles included similar shocking statistics, such as: \ As stated early in the first quote, the author mentioned how the …show more content…
Many may debate that it is not the media creating these stereotypes, it is the teenagers themselves, the only involvement the media has is the spreading of these stereotypes among different styles of media and entertainment. This spreading across different styles of media and entertainment is the reason behind the popular stereotype definitions that everybody knows.

My personal opinion on this view of the media and teen stereotypes is that the media is at fault. The reason behind my opinion is based on the fact that because of the media abusing its role in today’s world, it has lead people to believe whatever it says is true, like its way of displaying adolescence.

The stereotypes displayed by the media only reflect on a small percentage of teenagers, but there is a much larger portion of teenagers who do not fit the ‘teenager’ stereotype that the media displays. Instead of showing the behavior of the small minority of teens who are stereotypical, why doesn’t the media display the behavior of the larger portion of the adolescent
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