Representation and Bias Blog Task

Sky News Report on the London Riots:

• Sky News use the perspective of the police officers to present the story.

• The police are represented as the heroes saving the people of Tottenham from the rioters.
• Young people are represented as dangerous, violent and disruptive.
• Sky News use videos of the burning buildings, citizen journalism
• Sky news use a negative choice of words to describe the teenagers and use words to make the audience sympathetic about the police officers.
• The citizen journalism part of the report is used at the beginning of the report to show the destruction that the rioters caused.
• The narrative is used to engage the story through the way it was introduced, by saying how many casualties there were.
• we can apply Todorov's theory of equilibrium to the story through this, Tottenham fans start rioting, Police officers come to save the day, everything goes back to normal.
• Rioters=villains, police=heroes
• Citizen journalism may have provided a perspective as you can see the building burning.