They have used the perspective of the police only
2) How are the police represented in this coverage?
The police are represented as the heroes and the victims of this 3) How are young people represented in this coverage?
Young people are represented as the looters and the villains who are trashing the city, however, the audience is unaware that most of the actual statistics
4) What images and videos are selected by Sky News to accompany the story?
Other stories revolving around black people and the youthful - negative stories- perhaps showing that this is a common thing for the youth 5) What choice of words is used to present this news event?
They describe the looters as 'hooded, masked, youths' which is an assumption - the also over exaggerate 6) What aspect of the story is chosen as the most important detail and included at the very beginning of the report?
The police officers and amount of destruction - they do not fully cover the reason why they began to riot which was the death of Mark Duggan
7) How is narrative used to engage the audience with this news story?
They include fire and ruins of Tottenham at the beginning followed by rushing police - they only reveal why they began rioting at the end
8) How can we apply Todorov’s equilibrium theory to this coverage?
The civilians loss and the amount of fire - the devastation of the entire event
9) What examples of Propp’s character types can we find in this coverage? Are there heroes and villains?
They used the police officers to play the role of the heroes and the rioters were the villains
10) How might citizen journalism have been used to provide a different angle on this story?
Citizen journalism is used to end bias and actually put the story straight - the news gatekeepers are practically forced to use it because either way then video will be shown eventually. This will generally be telling the truth as it is raw footage with no edits.
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