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In my opinion in media I think that teenagers are misrepresented because in the Magazine they give opinions on how you should look and how you can attract boys and girls. When the teenagers read it, they won’t follow what the book or magazine says and they just follow their own way and in their daily lives, you’ll see none of them like what the Magazine article says.
Bob Geldof is the one who hits out at teen magazines, he doesn’t want a magazine about how to get girls/boys, flirting and more. He wants these sorts of magazines to stop because he has a 3 teenagers daughters and he said, “It’s too sexual information for young teenager’s children”. Bob Geldof compares these magazines to pedophiles because of the sexual content. Two of the quotes that Bob Geldof said, “Are they any less offensive than a 22 year old man going to and 11 year old and saying ‘I am going to talk to you about sex”,
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“If such a conversation happened, you would view it as sold, probably illegal and certainly Predatory”. The news reporters or the media suppose Bob Geldof is known for being outspoken. Bob Geldof went tot the media itself to tell his opinion, once he went to BBC programmer Grumpy old men, in this programmed he admitted that he had not banned the magazine from his home but he was still outraged to see their contents.
The good things about the magazine are they tell lots of advice s that you don’t want to talk to your family about sex. It also has a child helpline with them, so when ever they need help about sex they can ring this child helpline, so they will give good answers to teenagers to understand about sex.
The bad things about the magazine are its too sexual information and it’s not appropriate for teenagers. It has the words that the teenagers don’t want to learn. There’s no useful idea or advice for teenagers. They were talking about how to be hot or how to do sex and also they made the teenagers to think about sex.
In Cosmo girl’ front cover the sort of writing it had for girls. You can tell by the words, fonts (different variety of writing) in bold colour and finally the layout, when I mean layout 1 mean is what sort of fonts they use. Fonts like bold, Italic, size of writing and the different varieties of fonts e.g. Times new roman. They also use informal language e.g. EEK! That’s for the girls who wear a lot of clothes, put a lot of make up and girls is who try to attract boys and flirt with them. Straight away you can say this magazine for girls. (You can tell this by the title: Cosmo girl) and also on the front cover there is a signature saying Rachel Bilson that isn’t really her signature because like I said there’s different varieties of fonts. Finally that I can tell this front cover it’s for girls I that the colour they use blue and pink, they’re both primary colour inside the Cosmo Girl it will just talk about fashion, how to attract the boys and more.
In Channel U video, the teenagers were wearing some attractive clothes (gangster or style) to impress the girls. Like e.g. the way they sing and move their moves like a really bad guy, some of their moves were sexually to the girls. It’s like a gangster; they were tired to be a gangster. They were getting close to the girls by Dance, touching them. The teenagers would really enjoy this because its got a rap which is look like a gangster, when the teenagers watch gangster sort of rap/songs they all go hyper and act like they’re cool and strong and also its sexually explicit, revealing clothing for the girls, provocative, subservient, very aggressive style of shooting, violence, the way they move, body language, gangster attitudes and confrontational.
In the Sketchers adverts there were two sorts of teenagers who were aimed at female and male. When the girls looked at the adverts they would think if we buy these trainers we will feel like the girl on the picture. The girl on the picture looks comfortable, good looking, relaxed and passive. On the other side boy’s point of view about the sketchers adverts is totally different from the girl’s point of view. When the boys look at the advert they’ll think that they’ll turn all active, strong, good looking, ready for anything and is control of themselves and other people. The body language is like aggressive, tough and strong and shape body. The body language shows you that they showing off their body and strengths. The stereo types are not all true because not all the boys in the world aren’t like that and also it makes you look like you’re more active.
