CYP Now's predecessor Young People Now launched a campaign called Positive Images, which aimed to remedy the fact that some 70 per cent of press coverage of young people was negative. At the time it was not unheard of for even government press releases to use words like yob when referring to young people, and young people themselves were hardly ever quoted in features about them. Now, although the recent riots did make me wonder whether there would be a return to such relentlessly negative coverage, I would have to say that things have definitely improved, and one example is this piece on skateboarding youths outside Colchester's very shiny new arts centre.
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