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 is good news. Youth organisations have a tough task in trying to promote positive images of young people.
But it's a vital task, says Michael Cooper, campaign co-ordinator for Citizen Y in Edinburgh, an organisation dedicated to improving the image of the city's young people.
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