Participation Works Article (Positive Representation)

The article above comes from a website called "Participation works", a much less known website regarding news stories. From the article headline we can already tell that this article will attempt to justify young people and give a more positive representation. This is suggested in the headline where it states "how negative media portrayal affects their lives". The article argues that although there are many antisocial young people in society, they seem to be the ones which are mostly focused on by the media. 

This is suggested where the article states that a group of teenagers conducted a study into why young people are represented negatively by the media. The findings concluded that 76% of the journalists which they interviewed by phone wrote mostly negative stories about young people. This clearly suggests that the problem here is that the negative portrayal by the media is affecting young people’s lives due to stereotyping by adults and the rest of the public due to what they are used to reading online and in news papers. It also suggests that perhaps the reason for antisocial behavior in the first place is due to this constant negative portrayal of young people in the media which causes anger. 

This would make sense due to the fact the teenagers which conducted the survey felt affected by this to the extent they felt it would be right to investigate this topic further. However due to the fact that this is not a well known website, the information could be over exaggerated or perhaps even false altogether, the study may not have even been conducted in the first place. Also the fact that this survey was carried out by a group of young people could possibly mean that it holds a very bias view as they were the ones who were being affected in the topic of investigation. Perhaps the teenagers themselves lied or even changed the results to exaggerate the supposed outcome of their investigation. 

This affects the reliability of the information in this article almost entirely. However the article does attempt to give a balanced argument and doesn't simply suggest the media are entirely against young people. This suggests perhaps it isn't as bias as initially suggested.

Source? (Participation Works): 3/10

Reliable Information?: 3/10

How Bias?: 5/10