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| | McKnight Foundation : Youth in the Media |
 | | Youth advocacy organizations and many scholars point to the media, which are quick to cover the crime of the day, day after day. |
 | | In fact, youth commit only about 12% of violent crimes, and the trend is going down. |
 | | We need to demand balanced coverage of a breadth of youth issues—health care, learning, family life, poverty, neighborhood schools, parks that are child-friendly, youth leadership, and more—to ensure that we make well-informed, effective policy decisions that keep our society strong. |
| www.mcknight.org /hotissues/overview_youth.aspx (605 words) |
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