Yesterday I attended an event in Glasgow's St Mungo's Museum along with Rachael Cahill MSYP, for Glasgow Kelvin, and Keenan Alexander MSYP, for Glasgow Springburn, and other young people from my own constituency and other young people from across the whole of Glasgow. The event was called 'Truth About Youth' and was facilitated by Young Scot and The CO-OP. At the event we learned how the group wants to create more positive stories for the media to report.
At the event we all discussed the best way forward to help change the perception of young people in Glasgow. Many ideas were raised about how young people can engage with the media more. Something that all young people agreed on was that we would not want the media to stop reporting bad stories about young people as people have a right to know what is going on in their society. What we did say is that the media should print more positive stories about young people to help people in Glasgow get a balanced view of young people and show that the minority do not represent the majority.
We decided as a group that the best way for this to actually happen is to create an online bank of positive stories about young people that the media can report on if they wish. The idea is that this would make it easier for the media to find positive stories about young people because like any kind of stories, the bad stuff is more noticeable and tends to overshadow the good things in society.
With this idea we also thought that it would be good for young people to have more contact with journalists from all different kinds of newspapers so that they can work with young people on stories which lets them experience the 'decent side' of the younger generation as well as giving the young person taking part great experience on what it is like to work in the world of media.
I wish this project all the best and I look forward to working with the Truth About Youth team in the future.
If you have any questions please contact me at: austin.sheridan.msyp@sypmail.org.uk
Posted by Austin Sheridan MSYP.
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