Youtube videos covering news on the London riots

In this video youths are seen in a very negative way, the footage focusing mostly on the police and authority figures and the damage caused to them throughout the riots. Images of lots of buildings in ruins, with shops and businesses on fire and the devastation of ruble are shown to the audience in order to shock them of the disaster which has occurred. Interviews are given by the police mainly and the overall view is based against youths and the bahaviour commited. The news report is very factual and geographical with pictures of landscapes from a range of shots.



In this video youths are seen in a positive light by the interviewee who, being a member of the public talks a strong negative view against the police and the occurance with Mark Duggan. The language he uses is very sympathetic towards youths particularly his grandson who he states has been checked by the police several times. He brings in the strong arguement about race in the sense that both the victim and black people in the streets seem to have a much harder time when police are dealing with them compared to white youths in the streets. His strong views are contradicted by the interviewer who indicates that race issues are not really an excuse to riot however the interview as a whole is centrally bias towards youths and how unfair they have been tret, showing the riots to be exceptable retaliation for it.



This video shows a definite negative reading of the riots and how the youths behaviour is completely unacceptable and unnapropriate to members of the public. The video focuses mainly on the present action of the riots in which the reporter is in the midst of it and showing actual occurances as well as using negative language in order to show the riots in a negative light. Occurances such as the smashing of a police car with bricks and stones at the side of the road with the reporter stating how quickly the mood of the crowd can change as they were thought to be surrounded by sight seeings and then the mood seemed to of eratically change to violent behaviour of youths out of control



In this interview the reporter interviews a mixed view as he shows the view of both innocent youths and how they are perceived as bad and the youths who have taken part in the riots and their view. At first he interviews two youths who are completely innocent and have been out of town all day, but because of his bias which he shows through the interegation type questions asked towards them such as "why don't you just go home" he automatically thinks they are part of the looting and crime because of their young appearance. This shows the press in a bad light by prejudging in such a way as not all youths can be put in the same catagory purely down to their age and appearance. However once interviewing another youth this also shows the negative side of youths as he admits he is there to "piss the police off" and has taken part in the looting showing a fine representation of the negative side to youths.