Rowdy or Just Misunderstood

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St Teresa’s Catholic College Year 11 English 2013 Spoken Public Persuasive Text “Rowdy or just Misunderstood?” Riley Bruce Good evening, I am Riley Bruce reporting for ‘A Current Affair.’ Tonight’s show is, ‘Rowdy or Just Misunderstood?’ This story will be looking at the way our media today represents the different age groups of our society, and how it may influence people’s opinions on that certain generation. The most common age group that the media portrays as being the most ‘rough’ and ‘bad’ are the adolescence of today. Teenagers today are thought of as loud, irresponsible, violent and dangerous. The media tends to follow stories of young teenagers drinking, doing drugs, illicitly spray painting on public property and walls, also, committing such offences like shoplifting and drink driving. Yes this does go on in our world and there is nothing we can do to stop it. The media also needs to recognize the good that young people of today do. An example of the good that teens do is a story of a 19 year old that didn’t just save one but three lives. Sam Porter from Melbourne saved three lives in three years, probably about 90% of people would not have heard about this story. A story, which you have all probably heard, is of Corey Worthington. He had a house party while his parents were away. He is known to some teens as a ‘legend’ for doing the wrong thing, the party he had resulted in lots of damage to his surrounding neighbor hood and many arrests. Most people would know his name and what he did. This is just one example of how the media targets the negative stories of teen s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR99WZFWumA The media also labels the elderly people of our modern society. The elderly are generally viewed in a stereotypical way as slow, ill and fragile. For example Spec savers created an advertisement, which shows an old couple that sit

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