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Children as experts: How the media exploit minors

Welcome in Lützerath, undesirable at Corona demos: the media increasingly regards children as political subjects who should have a say – but only where it suits the journalists.

«Save my world!» – a student at a Fridays for Future demonstration, Germany 2019.

Stefan Boness / Panos

Jeremias, blond hair, red jacket collar, seven years old, has a clear opinion: “I want the cars to drive with electricity, that the electricity is generated from wind power, solar energy and hydropower,” he says to the camera. Then Leon appears, he has a gap in his teeth, is also seven years old and has the same opinion: “Most of the time, the cars drive really fast, and I think that you should walk rather than drive, because the cars are then polluters.”

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