Activities
The aim of the campaign is to improve the image of young people by increasing youth participation in the media. If frequent images of violence, drugs, anti-social behaviour and knife crime in the media cause such a negative view of youth, then increasing images of the good that young people do should go some way towards combating this negativity.
The campaign believes that fears between different groups are caused by misunderstanding, so if adults can understand the thoughts and actions of young people, the barriers will fall.
The campaign is looking at changing the Press Complaints Commission clause on discrimination, which currently neglects to mention youth.
The campaign is conducting a survey of young people's views in the West Midlands, which will be used to create a report on the issue of unfair representation in the press, which will be sent to leading politicians and media executives.
The campaign is in the process of filming a five-minute documentary, which will be shown on Community channel. Several local papers agreed to regular youth contributions, and there is the possibility of one in the Birmingham Mail.
Read more about this topic: See The Good Behind The Hood
Famous quotes containing the word activities:
“No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do—I just did it.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.”
—Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925)