Youth groups need to get proactive with the media in order to combat negative images of young people. Caspar van Vark outlines how they can get their stories across in the best light. Here's a quick media exercise: go to BBC News Online and do a search for "youth". What do you see in the headlines? The first page of results alone is sprinkled with words like "crackdown", "bottle attack" and "curfew". That's just one example, and youth workers will be aware that coverage of young people is similarly negative all over the media. It seems that bad news...