In this clip, a Government Official Luitenant featured on popular American news channel Fox News. In his appearance, he suggests that 18-28 year old muslim males should be profiled and then strip searched, as he believes that they are more likely to be carrying dangerous weapons or explosives. This is an example of a generalisation in the media where a whole ideology/religion is being generalised and stereotyped based on a small minority, likely to have stemmed from the 2001 attacks.
In this video, also from Fox News, the news reporter once again makes a generalisation about refugees of muslim religion. They have done this by showing a video of a small group of muslims chanting similarly to that of terrorist groups. Not only does this appear to be Fox News creating a negative representation of muslims a whole, comparing the entire religion to this small group, but the footage used was inaccurate, as it was from 5 years prior.
Gender
In this news report from American channel CNN, females are negatively represented. This clip focusses on binge alcoholism amongst adolescent females, creating the impression that all females condone this behaviour. The narrator puts particular stress and emphasis on negative words such as 'celebrates promiscuity', 'raunchy sex talk' and 'love of alcohol'. The report has been mediated extensively, this is evident in the interview section, where an interviewee is chosen who shares the same view on the matter as channel/news report, although the location gives us the impression that the question is spontaneous and unplanned.
This newspaper column form The Daily Mirror also represents females negatively. It does this by suggesting that women's football is inferior to men's football, by saying things such as 'A women's place is in the wrong' and 'women already cost me enough'. These phrases could be argued to be sexist generalisations, as the impression is created that the columnist is referring to all women in this inferior manner.
Age
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150187/Under-18s-commit-quarter-crimes-Young-offenders-responsible-million-crimes-just-year.html
Figures show more than half of the stories about teenage boys in national and regional newspapers in the past year (4,374 out of 8,629) were about crime. The word most commonly used to describe them was "yobs" (591 times), followed by "thugs" (254 times), "sick" (119 times) and "feral" (96 times).
At the same time a survey of nearly 1,000 teenage boys found 85 per cent believed newspapers portray them in a bad light.
As a result of the negative press, 80 per cent felt adults were more wary of them now than they had been a year ago..
The most popular reason for their wariness, cited by 51 per cent was 'media stories about teen boys' compared with 40 per cent who said their wariness was based on their own or friends' bad experiences of other teens."
This online newspaper article is about the crime committed by youths in the UK. This report focusses extensively upon the negative characteristics of a proportionately small amount of this demographic, using statistical data to reinforce this. For example, "A quarter of all crimes are committed by under 18's, an official report suggests". Although the data used is likely to be valid and accurate, there is no mention in the article of any positivity relating to this age bracket, meaning that the majority of youths (which are not criminals and are generally good people) are not highlighted.
This notice on a shop window openly discriminates against youths. It does this by stating that the number of youths allowed in the shop is limited. This has been done because of negative portrayals of youth, representing them as criminals. This sign does not consider the youth as a whole and instead focusses on 'the 1%', most likely due to representations of youth in the media, where success is highlighted little in comparison to failure.
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