How are teenagers portrayed in the media?

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I need to know how teenagers are portrayed in television, radio, newspapers, magazines or any other form of media. Can anyone help me plz? thanx
 
Girls: snotty, compassion-challenged, cruel, and more worldly than boys and parents; overly concerned about their weight and appearance and "relationships."
Boys: hormones in tennis shoes; dumb and callow. Dirty, unmotivated and geeky.
 
Rent and watch the movie 'Mean Girls'. It's a hilarious caricature of female adolescents, but you can get an idea from that of what most of the media thinks of teen girls. (almost as bad as that, but less corny).

Generally, we're portrayed as promiscuous, impulsive, rebellious without reason, defiant for the hell of it, in love with dangerously wild parties, prone to lack of common sense, and with a tendency to either fulfill gender stereotypes or be the complete opposite of said stereotypes.
 
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