Eye On Education: Program Teaches Girls How To Control Media And Message

BOSTON (CBS) Every day we are bombarded with images in magazines, on TV, and online. And those images can shape a young girls self-esteem before she even understands what shes looking at.

Everybodys always really skinny.

Most of the girls are white.

It makes me feel unattractive, like a I can never look like that.

Everybody looks perfect and it kind of lowered my self-esteem.

Thats just a sampling of sixth grade girls describing how those glossy, photoshopped pictures can make them feel.

But now there is a new program teaching girls how to take control of media and the message.

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What media is teaching girls, overall, in mainstream media is that theyre not enough. They are not sexy enough, not hot enough, theyre not enough, Michelle Cove told WBZ-TV.

Thats why she started the non-profit organization Media Girls.

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Eye On Education: Program Teaches Girls How To Control Media And Message

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