Junior Bre-Anna Johnson is amazed by how the media portrays teenagers and she thinks that it is truly unrealistic.
“Teens on TV seem fake at times,” said Johnson. “Too much be going on, and the realness doesn’t really come out on TV shows sometimes.”
Things on TV portray teens in different ways. Much of the media, however, stereotypes teenagers. When students watch TV most of them want a great story or plot that is going to make them want to watch it every day. They say they would like to watch something more real, not a lot of fantastic, stereotypical characters that do not really exist.
“Sometimes, television shows portray us as teens in a real good way,” said junior Marina Martinez. “Showing the reality of most of our lives as teens and what we go though as human beings growing up.”
Shows such as The Secret Life of the American Teenager, is an example of how television and the media understands the hardships of common teenagers.
“Sometimes shows about high school teens show teens in a different light. Some just put on a show for television,” said junior Shamari Christian
Saved by the Bell shows teens in high school just living their lives as students and has been known to portray the teens on the show accurately with actual real life situations.
“To me teens on TV are very well portrayed in high school for example, the TV show Saved By The Bell really showed teens as kind of who we are today,” said junior Jamari Haynes
A good example of putting on a show is the CW television series Gossip Girl. The plot is a bunch of very wealthy teenagers going to a very high standard private school. The teens are as dramatic overly scandalous.
“One bad example of teens on television is Degrassi, said junior Ryanna Hester. “It doesn’t show teens as real as other TV shows, to me most television shows don’t really show how are teens really are.”

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