What was the historical depiction of young people and teenagers by the mainstream media? (Un-finished)

Looking back at historical texts we can see that teenagers haven't been represented in a positive or fair way through the media for many years. In the mid 60’s when the mods and the Rockers were clashing on the south coast, mainstream media outlets such as the Daily Mirror heavily attacked the young people involved. The extensive and heavily emotive articles created mass hysteria within the papers reader bases (typically made up of only adults) which would of had an impact on relationships between the generations, broadening the generation gap. 

In an article published by the Daily Mirror on March 30th 1964, teenagers that took part in the riots were labeled as ‘Wild ones’, ‘…gangs’ and were described as being ‘…thirsty for creating disturbances and fighting.’. Emotive words such as thirsty make the story sound much worse than it actually is, by using this sort of language the writers were able to promote a negative perception of the parties involved. The use of such thought provoking words was un-ethical as it was used to sway the audiences views to suit the views of the writers when the paper should be presenting factual un-biased coverage of the events. It was even admitted afterwards by officials that the coverage was hysterical and had create a moral panic around the situation.

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Negative representations of youth from the past wasn't just found within newspaper articles, it was also found in movies such as Quadrophenia. In this movie we get to see the other side of the Mods and Rockers story from the point of the youths.