1. LONDON RIOTS 2011

2. HOW DOES THE NEWSPAPER
COVARAGE CHANGE AS THE RIOTS
PROGRESS?

3. HOW DOES THE NEWSPAPER
COVERAGE CHANGE AS THE RIOTS
PROGRESSED?
They started of looking at it just Once they’d assessed the situation
displaying the facts of the situation they were targeting the young Looking at the young people that
and was giving a general overview. working class rioters involved had died presenting the idea that
The photo was focusing on nothing focusing on specific situations. they were the only ones involved.
but the destruction of the building, Presenting the idea from the The police are being pressured by
as there are no people really seen picture and headline and together British youth creating this idea of
to be there making an impact. that it’s British youth against moral panic because they are seen
London as a whole. to be pushing the
governemnet/police into a corner.

4. WHO’S PERSPECTIVE IS THE IS THE PAPER
WRITTEN FROM?
“Twitter itself was being blamed for the contagion, amid assumptions the
networking service was – alongside Facebook and the BlackBerry
messaging service – being used to co-ordinate the unrest. Amid the panic.”
The Guardian have made a point of how social networking has been involved with the ignition of a rioting frenzy in the poorer areas
of London, after people were left scanning the online sites in search of information about the current events. The Guardian stated
“the rise and fall of rumours on Twitter is a striking display of social forces in action” as they had accumulated a rough 2.6 million
‘tweets’ which were identified as being riot-related through the use of ‘hashtags’. We can see the impact that this has on the British
youth as they are always seen in connection with social networking in regards to media representation of them. This makes clear the
point that the youth of Britain were the ones that were associated instantaneously by The Guardian as having a big part within the
rioting. We can see from this that the articles are written from the perspective of the ruling class as they are using the youth as an
empty category (Giroux) and presenting their fears about the youths through the use of Twitter because it is something so grossly
associated with them. The original message they were trying to put across was that social networking has played a big part in the
rapid increase of riot partakers, but it has come across that the majority of these people are younger in age, because of the
connotations of ‘social networking’ within today’s society. The government were even looking at Twitter to “examine the roots of the
unrest”.

5. - The view has changed through
the week as even though still
written by the ruling class
- Looking at how it doesn’t
conform to the ideology of
protection – watching them cant
make them conform
- Article about how the
shopkeepers were having to
fight off the rioters police were
just watching
- The ruling class were siding
with the rioters because they
could see how the police
weren’t listening or helping
them

6. HOW IS THE NEWSPAPER
COVERAGE BEING MEDIATED?
These photo are of the same places. Me and Emma were saying that the left hand side Google months ago. We can see though that they are
focusing on the worst of situations even though further down the road there could be a shop that’s perfectly fine.

7. no photos that are of things slightly on fire.

8. In these pictures they have chosen to
show pictures featuring the British
youth rather than adults, and we can
see clear iconography through the
hoodies and he’s got a beer can.
Looking at Robin Wood we can see
that they are such a monster because
they’re being backed by the fire with
their faces covered, they were
probably just walking through the
street, but these pictures show them
to be the instigator of it. Of all of it
when they present these photographs
on their front pages. British youth in
general

9. If you look at the headline, they are
focusing on the police attacks, they’re
not looking at the shopkeepers that
got hurt or anything are they? They’re
focusing on the police because
they’re the pinnacle of the ruling class
and having correct norms and values,
so fighting against them is really
something shocking isn’t it.
Something people are going to have
the biggest problem with.

10. August 6th-7th

11. August 6th
• A bus, a shop and two patrol cars have been set on fire in Tottenham. An
estimated crowd of around 300 have gathered and there have been
reports of looting and shop windows being smashed.
• Earlier in the day members of a community where a young man was shot
dead by police had took to the streets to demand "justice".
• The 29-year-old, named locally as father-of-four Mark Duggan, died at the
scene in Tottenham, north London, on Thursday.
• About 120 people marched from the local Broadwater Farm area to
Tottenham Police Station, forcing officers to close the High Road and put
traffic diversions in place.
• A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "Missiles were thrown at them.
One was set alight and one was pushed into the middle of the High
Road."
• Officers were being dispatched to disperse the crowd, he said.
• He could not confirm that those responsible for the trouble were
connected to the protest.

12. August 7th
• Earlier, officers on horseback and others in riot gear clashed with hundreds of rioters armed with makeshift missiles I
• There was still no police presence in Wood Green High Road at 4am, even after dozens of stores had been smashed and raided, setting off
multiple alarms.
• Around 100 youths targeted game shops, electrical stores and clothing chains
• Windows were smashed and the looters – mostly young men masking their faces – swarmed in and emerged with handfuls of stolen goods.
• Three teenagers ran down the street with suitcases filled with stolen clothes. Around 10 young men stood outside a smouldering Carphone
Warehouse, the windows smashed. In suburban back streets, residential front gardens were used to sort and swap stolen goods.
• A boy who looked about 14 drove a stolen minicab erratically down a side street. On an adjacent street, a man who emerged from his home
to find his car burned out remonstrated with other young men, who ran past carrying clothes.
• A teenager walked past with a baseball bat, while another held a torn off section of wood in one hand.
• We are looking at a group of people disaffected by historical inequality: a high level of poverty and generational unemployment. And
young black people are still more likely than white people to be stopped and searched.
• The catalyst for the initial, peaceful protest reflects something much deeper in the psyche of the community – the historical sense of injustice
at deaths in custody. The police have been given increasing legal powers to use force widely. But this privilege has to be used wisely. The
police can only do so with the consent of the community – such policing doesn't work otherwise. Now you have a community demanding
justice for what they see as yet another unjust death in custody. The situation hasn't changed in decades, they believe: the police seem to
have difficulty keeping people alive when in detention – particularly black people.
• "I haven't told my children that he is dead," Wilson said. "How can I tell them when I don't have any answers about how he died? We went
to the police station for answers. Someone did come out but they said they had no answers to give us because it was out of their hands.
• David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, said the events were "an attack on Tottenham, on people, ordinary people, shopkeepers,
women, children, who are now standing on the streets homeless as a consequence".
• "If a senior police officer had come to speak to us, we would have left. We arrived at 5pm, we had planned a one-hour silent protest. We
were there until 9pm. Police were absolutely culpable. Had they been more responsive when we arrived at the police station, asking for a
senior officer to talk with the family, we would have left the vicinity before the unrest started.
• At 9.30pm, Met police and reinforcements from Kent began turning the whole of Enfield into a sterile area. Hundreds of riot police arrived
with vans and police dogs, charging at groups of teenagers, who melted into sidestreets. They smashed cars and shop windows as they ran.
• Unlike the previous night's disturbances, riot police were on the scene in large numbers. Their stance was also more aggressive, with
baton charges and dogs used to disperse crowds.
• At 11pm, on a nearby road called Elizabeth Ride, a young man was stabbed under the arm. He could walk to an ambulance but his friends
refused to talk to police and disappeared, shouting: "Why would we talk to feds? You're the reason this is happening."
• BBM allows users to send one-to-many messages to their network of contacts, who are connected by "BBM PINs". For many teens armed
with a BlackBerry, BBM has replaced text messaging because it is free, instant and more part of a much larger community than regular SMS.
• "Years ago there would have been a lot of dialogue," said David Gilbertson, formerly a Metropolitan police division chief superintendent at
Tottenham. "We would have gone out of our way to ensure that the organisers of a protest group would have been brought into a station like
that even if others were stood outside."
• It took hours for police to change from regular uniforms to riot gear, and even longer for them to begin almost half-hearted attempts at
preventing looting.