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The sad fact is that we are talking ourselves into a culture where knives and guns are glamourised not by rap music but by the press and adults in general - we are sublimely coaching young people into behaviour that they wouldn't ordinarily condone
Just watching the 2nd episode now up in Liverpool and Manchester (loving those Scally Tans), and I think its interesting seeing which programmes and schemes stand up to scrutiny or come across as convincingly making a difference.
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However, for me personally, the worst thing is that there are plenty of young people who have grown up facing severe disadvantage (care, poverty, drug-misusing parents) who NEVER get involved in gang crime, offending, knives, guns, drugs, robbing etc and go on to make the very best of their situations. Can we give these young people a bit more air time please?
We did hear many shocking stories too and met quite a few kids who deserved better than they got, but in most cases the kids who really had things bad weren't the ones getting in the most trouble (in terms of criminal behaviour anyway) - for me society needs to recognise this much much more and I think the media needs to recognise that it has a responsibility here.
If the majority of the attention is placed upon those with the worst behaviour how does this help young people to aspire to positive behaviour? Its perhaps not right to blame everything on the media but I think it does need to accept a responsibility for giving a balanced coverage of the society we live in and what people contribute to this - and the majority of people are good people doing or trying to do good things - why then are they given the minority of coverage?