Media: Discriminating Against Teenagers

Reading the news it's not hard to start thinking that teenagers are most of them up to no good.  The vast majority of stories about them are, it seems, about dumb, irresponsible, strange, or unlawful actions.  The occasional warm and fuzzy (or heroic) story only makes the day to day negativity all the more striking.  

But if teens were actually as many of them as bad as they're usually portrayed in the press then none of us would be safe and things would be a lot lot worse than the are.  

Is this mere stereotyping, or is it discrimination?  I'm not sure.  What's clearest to me is that it's easy to get into the habit of thinking of kids in a negative light, and that some portion of the struggle that this country has in doing right by kids comes from the fact that we're exposed to little of what they do that's neither heroic or villainous but rather simply human. Here's a video I think I got off Adrants that's about how this plays out in England.