In the 1950s, teenagers were everywhere, and entrepreneurs their elders drooled at the chance to sell to them. Rock n' roll, teen exploitation flicks, comic books, and instant fashion statements sprung up to stoke the fires of adolescent demand. Meanwhile, investigations into the morality of youth flourished. The adult world is economically addicted to youth, and yet adults recoil in horror at the dark underside of the very images of popularity and sexy youthful rebellion that they help to package and market.
Sport feeds on youth.
This is a matter of nature, to be sure in some respects our bodies begin their inexorable decline before we have left college. Iverson, brand names both. While young athletes are marketed everywhere, one venerable market sports journalism stands out for its ability to construct daily narratives about these mythic youngsters for an avid public. And, as in most literature, these elements are generally deployed to stake out some moral ground, to create exemplars of the good and cautionary tales of life's moral pitfalls. Dickens first published his novels in newspapers as serialized stories, using characters to take the moral temperature of his time and place.