Monday, 17 June 2013

Positive Representation of British Youth

Tom Daley


Currently aged 19, he has multiple awards in the Olympics and other tournaments. The media world has warped everybody's (mostly the older generation) opinion of the younger generation. This could be done by program on TV, films, general news stories etc. Because the media industries know that if a story is negative about youth then it will get more views because everyone will jump on the "bang-wagon" and start despising young people.

Positive representation in the media is very hard to come by but in the 2012 Olympics there were many young people who won gold, silver or bronze. Tom Daley for example, after recently losing his father a year ago Tom Daley won a bronze medal in the Olympic Games (after winning 4th place, he received a tweet that said something along the lines of "your father isn't proud of you", soon after the person who sent this tweet was arrested)

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