1. By Dr. Sayed Waqar Hussain
Youth and Media By
Dr. Sayed Waqar Hussain

2. Composition A-The Role of Youth in Media
B-The Influence of Media on Youth
C-The Freedom of Media

3. A-The Role of Youth in Media
Youth: the time of life when a person has the greatest possible desires and the highest possible energies to fulfill them.
Media: The main ways through which most of the people receive information and entertainment i.e television, radio ,newspapers (Oxford Dictionary)

4. Continued
Information ought to be in conformity to people Right to Know:
Comprehensive,
Timely,
Unbiased.

5. Youth in Media Technical 63% Finance 72% Reporting 86%
Talk shows Anchors %
Editorial %
Newscasters %

6. Composition and growth of Stories
Over the past 10(particularly last 6) years: Exclusive Stories 58% Reports 77% Scandalous Stories 138% Economic issues 54% Rebuttals Declined by 24% Agenda Setting 50%

7. Social Issues and Security (Increase in Coverage)
Addiction %
Domestic Violence %
Gender discrimination 88%
Police tortures %
Abduction for Ransom 66%
Theft and Robbery %
Corruption %

8. Economic Issues Development Schemes frauds 36 12%
Misuse of Aid and Loans %
Misuse of Authority by Ministers %
Energy sector Fraud %
FBR/ Tax Evasion %
Trade %
Overpricing %

9. The Cost of Right to Know
76 Journalists Martyred (Denial Pearl)
Nasrullah, Saddique Bacha, Noor Hakim,
Wali Khan Babur, Noor Hakim, Ibrahim Khan,
Allah Noor, Amir Nawab, Hayat Ullah
Mosa Khan, Shoaib Khan, Mukarram Khan
Pervaiz Khan, Abdul Wahab, Asfandyar,
Marwat and Saleem Shahzd.

10. B-Media Influence On Youth
Gap between information haves and information have nots
Up to age of 17, , commercials are being watched by youth.
69 % of the girls are Influenced by skinny models to have a perfect body shape.
Males too feel insecure about their physical apperance

11. Continued On the average youth are exposed to14000 sexual references.
Music videos have more sex per minute than any other genre
Models and actresses are shown as sex objects
In 62% 0f ads, women are scantily dressed .

12. Cotinued Body Doubles are used to make up for imperfect body shapes
Actresses diet and smoke to keep their natural weight off
82 % of the movies show characters smoking.

13. As a Result Youth feel it normal to have sex
Young girls are undernourished, losing menstrual periods- fertility problems-health risks.
Smoking among High school, college and particularly university students is increasing
Males feel insecure about their physical appearance and involved in obsessive weight training, use anabolic steroids and dietary supplements for bigger muscles and stamina

14. violence
73% of the time a perpetrator goes ence unpunished, that suggests that violence is a successful way of resolving conflicts .
47% of the time violent action shows no harm to the victims.
15 % shows no pain
Only 16% shows long term –ve effects

15. As a Result Aggressive attitudes are being developed in youth.
Youth become desensitized to real world violence.
A fear of being a victim of violence is developed
Coverage of real world violence, crimes, killings, terrorists acts promotes crimes as they are highlighted when they are committed but not when they are punished
And also because bigger crimes are committed to create bigger head lines or breaking news.

16. C- Freedom of Press
Freedom of communication and expression through electronic and published material.
Right to know
Right to privacy
News –An unusual event
News- played up, play down
Rebuttal of news
Breaking News

17. News is sacred
Readers receivers or vitims of information
Coverage of real world violence, crimes, killings, terrorists acts promotes crimes as they are highlighted when they are committed but not when they are punished
And also because bigger crimes are committed to create bigger head lines or breaking news.