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Originally Posted by Gogogo
We need to remember that the only good news of the media in the UK is bad news, good news doesn't sell newspapers or make TV documentaries.
We need to try and keep a sense of proportion. I believe the majority of youth and do we mean teenagers, are generally ok, we only read or view the antics of the relatively few. It's very easy to think that the current generation of teenagers is worse than our own were but take a look and think.
I'm sure there are teenagers, many of them who do in fact lead decent lives. It's just that they don't make the headlines, they are not newsworthy enough, so let's be careful and not allow the troublesome few spoil the image of a generation.
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I try not to read newspapers too often, I get a lot of my news form what people post here or the odd trip to the BBC website.
I base my views on kids of today by walking down the street and seeing what they are upto, I see pensioners afraid to walk past groups of them, and I can honestly never remember that in my day. I see them run up the street throwing over all the bins on a nightly basis, I see them out until all hours, throwing stones at cars. etc etc etc.
No, I do not say thats all kids, but the increase is dramatic. Some may say its very few kids doing this sort of thing, but I would say it was almost unknown in my day. I had a group of kids throwing stones and verbal abuse for no reason a few months ago, they were then trying to bait me to follow them up a dark lane beside some shops. I just offered to take them all in the middle of the street, I know it was a silly thing to do, but these so called kids ie: young teenagers are capable of mugging adults.