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Sydney Fletcher(FGCU) Is the media breeding troubled youth?
Time after time I read articles about “today’s youth”, none of which give light to the success of the majority of teens and young adults. I think this negative light glamorizes negative behavior, and reinforces to underprivileged youth that it’s ok to be bad, it’s ok to sell drugs, or it’s ok to be pregnant at 15. It’s not. I truly believe these kids need to see role models in the media. Not Kate Moss snorting cocaine, or Lindsey Lohan drifting in and out of rehab. They need to see their peers going to college, or technical schools and creating a good life for themselves. It makes me sick to see kids idolizing these nutty stars instead of looking to their teachers and fellow students and mentors for guidance.
25. March 2009 at 02:47
Personally, I think this is too easy to blame it on the stars. At one point Eminem use to be my idole, I loved him like crazy, but I didn’t go around cursing all the time or insulting my mom. Plus, I bet that just by having that publicity of being a junkie made Lindsey Lohan lost a lot of her fans or else she wouldn’t have gone through desintoxication.
Plus I don’t think any teenage girl would think that this is all right to be pregnant. Just because the fact that this is so badly seen by the society. It is not normal to be pregnan at such a young age, or to take drugs ect…
And most of us tend to want to fit in as normal in the society we live in. All this to say that we all want to fit in the society. This is just the way it is, plus it is more secure. Now I would need the article you are refering to in your entry to make a more clear jugment.
2. April 2009 at 05:36
It comes down to this; these things sell, so the media will continue to print and show them. It’s difficult to come up with something that people would read if it’s based on a happy story. Human interest is nice, but society wants to read about the cases of failure so that they can feel better about themselves.