Daily Mirror - Blue Story Analysis

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DAILY MIRROR - BLUE STORY ANALYSIS

  • Daily Mirror - says there were 25 separate incidents involving Blue Story, which led to it being banned.
  • There is actually no information about these incidents
  • The story is arguably about nothing because there is no new information added, which the audience were unaware of before.
  • Making this into a story is a process called narativisation .
  • The implication is that these kids are dangerous. This story reinforces the stereotype that black teenagers are dangerous and violent, often involved in gangs.
  • These stories lead to media amplification, where something is repeated multiple times by the media and is blown out of proportion as a consequence
  • The BBC are big, national and respectable. They are an institution who pride themselves in being respectable and unbiased.
  • There is a law in the UK, 'The incitement of racial hatred act', which someone can be arrested for using racist words or degrading someone based on their race.
  • They can get in trouble if there is a racist comment, because technically they have allowed this to be published. The BBC banned comments.
  • The BBC subverted this regulation.
  • One way online newspapers can bypass UK regulation, is by publishing stories on facebook and twitter. Facebook is hosted in America, which do not have these laws. It's an American site, where the comments themselves are hosted in America

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