TV News Representation and Bias.

Sky News Report on the London Riots.

1. Sky News use the perspective of the police officers to present the story.
2. The police are represented as the heroes saving the people of Tottenham from the rioters.
3. Young people are represented as dangerous, violent and disruptive.
4. Sky News use videos of the burning buildings, citizen journalism
5. Sky news use a negative choice of words to describe the teenagers and use words to make the audience sympathetic about the police officers.
6. The citizen journalism part of the report is used at the beginning of the report to show the destruction that the rioters caused.
7. The narrative is used to engage the story through the way it was introduced, by saying how many casualties there were.
8. 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.
9. Rioters=villains, police=heroes
10. Citizen journalism may have provided a perspective as you can see the building burning.