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How do the media influence young people in today’s society? Our society still seems confused about what to think about children and young people. It seems to be gripped with a fear of children, blaming them for much of society’s ills: crime, vandalism, drugs, drink, sex, teenage pregnancy. The list goes on. But if these theories are true, where do these rebellious attitudes stem from? The obvious answer would be from the upbringing of children, but in my opinion the media also plays a substantial role in the attitudes, behavior and physical aspects of youth today, in particularly that of young women. We are constantly being bombarded with advertising, opinions, images and stories which appear to be forcing us to conform to a specific image of how we are supposed to be, whether it be slim, more intelligent or prettier.

Media strongly affects youth culture. The media executives are quick to defend their role in youth violence and bullying while selling millions of dollars in ads focused on youth. TV producers, network executives, motion picture companies and others in the media deny any impact of their programs on the attitudes and actions of youth. Meanwhile they continue to spend millions on special effects and marketing geared to increase appeal to youth markets. While corporations spend millions on market research and advertising to create products and campaigns targeted at a youth demographic, they still deny their ability to influence youth. If this were true to fact, would NIKE continue spending millions every year on product development, marketing and advertising? Would McDonalds still be using cartoon like characters to sell hamburgers? Would music labels be increasing the level of violence and sexual content in the music geared towards the youth audience? Would liquor companies be using youth oriented activities in their advertising? Of course it works on influencing youth and its ideals advertising would not be a multi-billion dollar a year business. If it had no influence, M-TV would not have consultant on staff spending huge amounts of money to ensure them keeping up with youth culture.

We’ve all heard it before. Blame it on TV or other means of media. If a child bludgeons another child to death with a wrench or shoots a classmate, it is the violent TV programs that they watch which are to blame, not the parents or the supervisors who are supposed to be there to make sure their kids do the right thing. How far is it true that the media is responsible for trivializing death and violence, thus causing the children of America to go out on shooting rampages, or kids in Britain to murder innocent toddlers? First let us look at the way the media portrays death. Death has always been a taboo subject. People do not usually sit around talking about death, especially to children. It may be for that reason that children do not really understand the concept of dying. We constantly see instances in cartoons where a character is killed, but in the next scene, that same character is alive and well again. The fact is that they do not actually die. Characters like Warner Bros. Wild E Coyote never die.

As clichéd as it may sound, it has been rightly said all things have their good as well as bad effects. In the similar conduct media also has its good as well as bad influence on youth. Well these were the negative influence of media on youth. Now we focus on the affirmative aspects of media.

Media plays a very important role in creating awareness. There are certain issues which remain untouched among youngsters as they feel guarded concerning it. Media helps in providing information regarding such topics. There are many such topics that are highlighted by the media. The current one that can be talked about is the quota system in colleges. Media created awareness that how injustice was being done with deserving candidates due to reservations in colleges. There was procession taken out by students in order to object regarding this bias discrimination.

One other such issue is the debate carried on regarding sex education. Media was trying to highlight both the aspects of the matter that whether sex education must be allowed in schools or not. There were a group of people who were all for it and there were people who considered it a taboo. Even though we are heading towards westernization, our roots still remain Indian. And that is the reason why we fell anxious discussing such issues with young ones. But if we think practically then there are so many instances where children head the wrong way just in the anxiety of knowing certain issues. So, the only acceptable approach in which we can guard our child from choosing the wrong path is by talking to them and educating them about the issues that need to be learnt at the right instance.

Media being one of the important means to reach out to the masses and influence their thinking and decision making, only to the positive media cannot attract attention of the masses, and to gain viewer ship, negative media has to be incorporated to balance out and attract the masses, but a line has to be drawn between the positive and the negative media in the interest of the younger generation.

In the months to come by, we will bear witness to the various kinds of Bollywood awards, Filmfare Awards, Screen Award, Zee Cine Awards, Sansui Awards, Stardust award, IIFA Awards..The most prestigious and well attended of the lot is the Filmfare Award(though it had a dismal attendance last year). Filmfare Awards are also generous of the lot, if they cannot fit an actor in their list, they make a special category for him/her with flashy names like ’special award’ ‘ outstanding performer’ etc. Last year, in 2007, we had Shahrukh Khan facing the heat from the child prodigy Darsheel Safary.

This time in 2008 Bollywood awards, SRK’s fantastic act in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi has intense competition from his favorite rivals: Hrithik Roshan and Aamir Khan. Hold on to your seats, get the popcorn out, and go through Filmfare Awards 2009. Though it is a tad early, here is a calculated prediction on the Filmfare Award 2009 and many other awards that will precede or follow it. You are free to argue on our choice of Filmfare Awards and other Bollywood awards.

Best Bollywood movie of 2008: Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (Shahrukh Khan weaves magic again)

Best Director: Abbas Tyrewala (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na) His first shot at direction is well rewarded)

Best Actor: Aamir Khan (Ghajini) Aamir has believably given his best performance ever.

Best Actress: Priyanka Chopra (Fashion) Priyanka Chopra is so inconsistent, some time she can give the worst performance and sometimes she can knock you out with her histrionics. In Fashion, Priyanka was amazing.

Best actor critics awards: Hrithik Roshan (Jodhaa Akbar) We have forgotten how Akbar looked, it all Hrithik for us.

Best actress critics award: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Jodhaa Akbar) The sword fight is still in our minds.

Best movie critics award: A Wednesday. The dark horse movie of the year, the super success stunned even the director.

Best supporting actor award: Arjun Rampal (Rock On). Tum ho toh..who else will win best supporting actor?

Best supporting actress award: Kangana Ranaut (Fashion) Kangana’s stoned act is always in Fashion!

Best actor in comic role: Abhishek Bachchan (Dostana). Watch the scene in Dostana, where Abhi tells how he and John fell in love, and you know you have got to hand it over to him.

Best actor in a villain’s role: Naseerudin Shah(A Wednesday) We just loved it Naseer sir

Best male debut award: Imran Khan(Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na).

Best female debutant: Asin Thottumkal(Ghajini) We would have considered Genelia, but she had already appeared in Masti.

Best story: Rock On

Best screenplay: Rock On

Best choreography: Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na (remember the cute ‘Pappu’ dance?)

Best cinematography: Aamir

Best editing: Ghajini

Best sound: Jodhaa Akbar

Best action: Race

Best dialogue: A Wednesday (haven’t heard such powerful dialogues in the climax for quite a while)

R.D.Burman award for upcoming talent: Rashid Ali (Kabhi Aditi)

Best male playback singer: K.K for Zara Sa (Jannat)

Best female playback singer: Shreya Goshal (Teri Or) Singh is Kinng

Best lyrics: Javed Akhtar for Jash-e-bahar(Jodhaa Akbar)

Best music: A.R.Rahman (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane NA) What a year, this little master has had! Jodhaa Akbar, Yuvvraaj and Ghajini apart from JTYJN

It’s a good time for a home movie night of fun! One of the best ways to entertain your friends is to order a large boatload of wholesale dvds, and begin a regular dvd get-together or club! In purchasing discs in large package deals, you may not even be sure about what you are going to receive; hence, you have the ingredients for a set of flick showings that will involve a surprise. Here’s how to do it.

Be certain that what you buy from your dvd wholesaler involves at least a number of real popular motion pictures. The high likelihood is that even in a pack of hundreds of wholesale dvds, you’ll get some great films. So one of your party party ideas can be “great films”". Invite friends to your house, stash some drinks in the cooler, be sure to have some healthy snacks and off you go!

What about the duds that you might get in the pack? That’s where the creativity has to be brought to bear. Let’s say you are blessed with copies of Gigli. Don’t throw up your hands! The only movie ever to have won the six “worst” awards, this film is going to test your je ne sais quoi in holding a gathering that can be any fun at all. Hold a “wholesale dvds” costume party. People can come dressed as the the unsavory characters and bizarre love interests of Gigli. Then you can play the film and hoot at it with great glee. Or give everybody a pad and pencil and let them jot down reviews as they observe the film. Then read the pans to the group at the when you can’t stand it anymore.

Of course, standard “theme” nights are terrific, too. Many dvd wholesalers offer packs of mixed genres, so you can have a comedy night, a drama night and a romance evening. You could even decorate your television room with pictures of the wholesale dvds you will be showing and have food suitable to the movie – like chocolate for Willie Wonka.

With help from a good wholesale dvds website, you can become known as the world’s best motion picture party hostess. Have fun with your new club!