Media Blog: Case Studies

News

Very biased, politics, money etc.
Alterer motives
Choose what they want, may be different in views - "Construction of reality"
"We are not seeing reality, but someone else's view" Mediation
Do change to fit in with what they want
Mediation - Presented as selective and biased
Media event - Saturation of the media, an occasion of happening spontaneous or planned that attracts prominent coverage [and saturates the market]
Types - Major news events - wars, social drama - progressively escalates - MP ex., expressive events - Olympics or deaths

London Riots

Why, what happened, who is to blame or media effect
The Sun - Exaggerated - 7 year olds - kids to blame, police chief on riots - Use of language as it spreads - avoids the issues.
The Guardian - Represent the problems, equality, liberal, other reasons
Telegraph - "Carry on looting" - Making fun of looters
Express - Immigration, very conservative
Mail - Immigration, very conservatives - older generation, easily influenced, traditional views
Links to audience + representations

Iconic images

Express, Mail & Star - Fits their representation of the youth, conservative ideologies, subjective, news values - sensationalists

Television

Live and constant - shocking images repeated - extent
More insight? BBC news, people who are there, youth's fault - Comments choosing where to film, interviewer biased - How they fit illogical views
Darcus Howe - Shuts him down when they go against what they believe, trying to stay unbiased - negative towards wrong ideologies - "Official enquiry". In-segregation of the people - wanting change. Racist - assumption just because he understand clash. Too many assumptions - Narrow minded, desperate for opinion - meaning for riots.
Gov. - Press time v. those with different ideologies, dominant ideologies v other ideologies & belief v. opionion
Sky News - "Hooded and masked youths", Youth are to blame, quotes of those in power, skim over the youths view.

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