(Audience and Representation Issues regarding an EVENT and a PLACE)
What caused the riots in London in August 2011?
What happened during them?
Who was to blame?
What happened afterward?
This event was a thoroughly unexpected outburst of violence perpetrated by a large group of people who destroyed property, stole goods and caused fear and mayhem with their actions. It apparently started with an escalation of a protest regarding a young black man named Mark Duggan who was shot by the police. The event is still being discussed by sociologists, politicians and theorists and is a complicated phenomenon with many sides to it:
It could be seen as a political struggle, a racial conflict, a class uprising, an example of an increasingly lawless youth or many other things.
What we are interested in exploring however is how the media represented it.
The O'Reilly Factor
The following extract is from an American TV news and current affairs programme called The O'Reilly Factor. The programme is transmitted on the Fox News channel and is hosted by a famously opinionated, right wing broadcaster named Bill O'Reilly.
What view might you expect him to take and promote on his show?
What audience do you think the programme is targeting?
Target Audience
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Audience Needs
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Other Media Coverage
Look at the following extracts and consider who their target audiences are and how those audiences are being appealed to. Also, think about what needs are being catered for by these media texts - why might an audience wish to consume this text?
As MS Exam Topic London Riots
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