Sky news presents the story that the protesters are young and reckless causing trouble.
2) How are the police represented in this coverage?
The Police are represented that they are being attacked by the youth and the youth are not listening and setting things are fire for no reason.
3) How are young people represented in this coverage?
Young people are represented as bad, ruthless and uncontrollable people. I say uncontrollable because the clips that they showing are all things that are on fire, damaged or destroyed. Such as the bus that are was burnt and a police car that was remained broken and destroyed by the youth.
4) What images and videos are selected by Sky News to accompany the story?
Sky news selected videos they did were ne sided and showing how the rioters were violent and causing mayhem and danger towards the area they were in which is quite interested they didn't choose any other pictures but pictures of a bus burnt and police in coming in etc.
5) What choice of words is used to present this news event?
he choice of words used to present the news are very stereotypical and biased. They described the rioters and 'young' and 'masked' but they have been mature adults. Also they described the police as heroes which was incorrect.
6) What aspect of the story is chosen as the most important detail and included at the very beginning of the report?
That the police were being attacked by the rioters and that the rioters were causing violence.
7) How is narrative used to engage the audience with this news story?
8) How can we apply Todorov’s equilibrium theory to this coverage?
At the beginning the police were shown that they were innocent and then the disequilibrium is when the rioters were rioting and were causing danger and violence, also equilibrium is when the peace was restored.
9) What examples of Propp’s character types can we find in this coverage? Are there heroes and villains?
The police are the heroes and the rioters are the villains
10) How might citizen journalism have been used to provide a different angle on this story?
Citizen journalism would have been used by the rioters having a say and their point of view and their opinion on what is going on and why they doing this etc.
