The bods at BBC Two have taken note and created Revealed, a 15-minute show on Saturday afternoons that looks at youth issues from the teenager's perspective.
In the first episode, twenty-something reporters Charlotte Ashton and Anthony Baxter (pictured) travelled across the UK to find out if young people are as bad as the media says.
In Belfast, they met Clare, 17, who bemoaned the fact that her local park has been closed following complaints that teenagers had been using it as a drinking hang out.
After further interviews with police officers and a leading criminologist, the reporters concluded that young people aren't as bad as the press say - in fact, teenagers are 10 times more likely to be volunteers than become criminals. Further episodes will cover subjects such as family life, sex and school.
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