Youth Media Quotes

One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'

When I was in the sixth form I presented a cable and satellite programme about music, television and video. I used to do public speaking competitions.

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.

For the very first video I ever made, I was told to film our family reunion, or something like that, and I had so much fun with it that I just kept doing it since then - probably since seventh grade.

I find that the stuff on television is more exciting than the films, which are for teens almost.

When it comes to the video channels and the programs, the radio stations, the music is geared towards kids, and it's made by kids.

The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

Very specifically, Nickelodeon is aimed at eight- and nine-year-olds.

I guess with a Netflix show, if you're a kid, it's all dependent on how you're raised and if you have access to it.

I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.

I do enjoy children's shows.

YouTube has a stigma about only kids watching it. That's true. It is mostly kids and teenagers who watch it. But I've never made videos for teenagers. They should not be watching my videos.

Children's books are full of violence.