How Old People and Teenagers are represented in the Media.

How Elderly people and Teenagers are represented in the media.



Elderly People

Elderly people are shown to be very unwanted and portrayed to be a burden. They also are shown out to have a lack of common sense and seem to be very dependant on other people. They are also usually shown no respect by other ages in the media and therefore they are feeble, weak and helpless in comparison. Furthermore, they are shown to be very boring and are old fashioned or out-dated. They usually seem to be deaf and unable to hear.

Teenagers

Teenagers are usually shown to be violent and anti-social, They are usually lazy and greedy, which then leads on to them being shown as obese. They are usually up to no good and vanderlising peoples property or taking drugs, which gives them a view from the audience that they are never going to acheive anything in life.