Media Focus on Epstein’s Powerful Friends Erases Their Victims
Most elite media coverage has focused not on Epstein’s victims, but on the lifestyles of Jeffrey Epstein and his rich and famous friends.
NYT Sidelines LGBTQ Youth Again in Conversion Therapy Case
Coverage of the conversion therapy case left out scientific and legal information necessary to understand what’s at stake for LGBTQ youth.
Once Again, NYT Coverage of Anti-Trans Attacks Leaves Out Trans Voices
The New York Times covered the latest right-wing attack on trans youth in a fashion all too common for the paper: devoid of any perspectives from trans individuals.
Baltimore Media ‘Create a False Impression That Youth Are Responsible for a Lot of Very Dangerous Crime’:
CounterSpin interview with Richard Mendel on youth crime coverage
“Young people in Baltimore…are 5% of arrests..and yet almost 30% of the stories that identified the age of the offenders focused on young people.”
Yanni Chen on TikTok Ban, Richard Mendel on Youth and Crime
Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.”
New Yorker Sides With Right Against Childless Cat Ladies
The message of Emma Green’s one-sided New Yorker piece is that the issue of declining birth rates is not economic, but a spiritual rot in contemporary society.
Rolling Back Protections for Child Labor in the Name of ‘Parental Rights’
In the last four years, state legislatures in at least 28 states have taken up proposals to roll back child labor protections; 12 states have passed such laws.
‘Millennials Moved Right’: NYT Cherry-Picks Data to Bolster Political Folklore
Left-lurching oldsters did not fit the preconceived theme like the right-sliding youngsters. So…leave them out of the analysis.
‘These Bills Will Make Children Less Safe, Not More Safe’
This is cutting young people off from life-saving information and online community, rather than giving them what they need.
Tauhid Chappell on Cannabis Justice, Evan Greer on Kids Online Safety Act
What will the legalization, and profitizing, of marijuana mean for the people and communities most harmed by its criminalization?
‘A Crucial Part of Colonization Is Taking Our Children’
“They say that this is about protecting Native children, but that’s not what it is. It’s about overturning our sovereignty.”
Jen Deerinwater on Indian Child Welfare Act
Those who want to eliminate the Indian Child Welfare Act are opposed by the reality that made the Act necessary in the first place.
Corporate Media’s Portrayal of Generational Divide Is So Cheugy
If the stereotypes of Generation Z sound familiar, it’s because just a few years ago, Millennials were described nearly identically.
ACTION ALERT: USA Today Stokes Parents’ Fears of Child Vaccination
USA Today’s reporting should lead with the fact that “there are no known serious risks from vaccination and its effectiveness is clear.”
‘We Have Seen the Deepening of the Anti-Democratic, Anti-Protest Legislative Trend’
“Some of these laws seek to really punish, not unlawful conduct, but association: the fact that people are in the same place at the same time.”
Media Must Stop Asking Youth Activists to ‘Save the World’
Because stories of youth resistance are powerful and deserve to be told, it’s time to reevaluate the way that media have been telling them.
Young Voices Largely Missing in Election Coverage
Despite the increase of young people planning to vote, corporate media have largely forgotten about them in the weeks leading up to the election.
Blaming Millennials for Their Elders’ Trump Attraction
There’s an attempt by some pundits to blame Millennials for the rise of Trump, bending logic and basic social science in the process. These attempts come in different forms, but one recent gambit is to point the finger for Trumpism on the falling standards of civic education, a thesis that either implicitly or explicitly indicts younger voters
Youth Reporting–Aided by NewsHour
“There are a lot of marginalized communities that really need to be involved in this struggle,” insists a young woman from the People of Color Working Group of Occupy Wall Street. Another organizer reflects, “Marginalized communities from New York City, particularly oppressed people, people of color…were totally underrepresented, and it was unclear if that was […]
Media’s ‘Girls Gone Wild’ Fantasies
When Time magazine (6/30/08; online edition, 6/19/08) reported that “nearly half” of 17 pregnant teenagers at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts had made a pact to have children simultaneously, corporate journalists latched onto the story and scurried to express their dismay on newspaper pages, blogs and 24-hour cable news. Time’s article, which reporter Kathleen Kingsbury […]
