Some 70 per cent of newspaper articles about young people are negative. Charlotte Goddard explains why Young People Now is launching a campaign that aims to improve the media portrayal of young people. When you look at young people, do you see a group of uncontrollable yobs, a threat to the stability of the community and an example of the degeneration of society itself? Probably not, because you are youth workers and it is your job to look behind labels and react to the diversity of young people's needs. But increasingly, that's what the majority of the media sees, or...