Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Young people are so often dissed by the media.
Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.
What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.
Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.
If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.
Teenagers have no advocate. I think any other minority so maligned by Hollywood would have pickets around the theater saying, 'We are not just idiots.'
Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.
I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.