Thursday, October 15, 2009
News about Teens
Many people say that the Rochester region, is one of the worst places to live. Is that true? With Rochester's high crime rate and deaths tolls rising higher than highway tolls? And everyone blames each other for it. While the East side blames the West side and the West side blames the South side, everyone outside of the Rochester area are blaming every side. The East side, West side, South side, North side, Up side, Down side, and the Flip side. Each side is still Rochester as a whole. Many suburban regions believe what they see on the News and what they hear from other people who have "visited" the city. The city of Rochester is not a bad place, Rochester just has some bad people. So everyone is bad? Of course not. There are just many people who value their weapons and their reputation more than their lives or their family. Recently, the Rochester Curfew was abolished and ruled unconstitutional. Do teens need a curfew? Is it the parents' job or the police's job to make sure their teen is off the street at night and home studying for that big state exam tomorrow? What do you think? And how do you feel about every minority being dipicted as having "Baby-Mama-Drama", or that they're;a drug dealer, a criminal, or going no where in life? What part of a person should be looked at and judged? Their situation, their living standards, their community, rumors, the color of their skin, gender, sexuality,race, or character? What do you think?
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The mainstream media, local media included, spend more time on the negative than the positive. So that being the case, when they report a crime in the city, they are not holding interviews! They are gonna pick the craziest, ghettoist person they can find and put them on television. However, when youth in the city are doing good things, like in the community (for example our program) the media is like "we are not interested in reporting that." So maybe, we need more well rounded and more accountable news stations and reporters! Hopefully, I will see some of yall living up to your social duties and obligations as you choose your careers and lives.
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