Not so, according to Iain Shaw, director of Media Education, an Edinburgh-based organisation that uses media projects to try to make positive changes in particular communities. "Young people are not fairly represented," he says. "But then, who is?"
Many young people are under few illusions about what programme-makers are interested in. Karen Sutherland, 17, a member of Media Education, says she has seen first-hand how images of young people can be manipulated.
"I saw a programme that had young people on it, and it was obvious they'd been drinking," she says. "But later it was discovered that the producers of the programme had bought the drinks."
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