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, 1. To what extent, if any, does media reporting of crime present a true and accurate
representation?
Becker (1963) called crime not a quality of behaviour, but an interaction between the person who
commits the act and those who respond to it. The media’s role therefore is not dissimilar to a liaison,
with the purpose of reiterating criminalised social flaws back to the public. However, the extent to
which the media iterates truthful and proportionate accounts of crime varies significantly.
Reiner (2007) explains how the media’s reporting on crime and deviance is filtered through both
editors and journalists’ desires to emphasize the newsworthy, attention grabbing stories for their
audiences. The concept of newsworthiness was explored by Jock Young (1971), who looked at how
the relationship between social control agencies and the media ‘fantasies’ trigger agencies to over-
react and further stereotype deviants. Moral panics are enacted by media fantasies, and play the part
of amplifying the deviant act until they achieve, ‘a translation of stereotypes in to actuality’. This is
further aided by the relationship the media attributes to the police and those deemed by the media as
deviant, categorically polarized in a false dichotomy the two sides are forced upon the audience as
‘good’ and ‘evil. The media has historically proven to be inflammatory in its portrayal of certain
‘alternative’ groups, such as the 1960s Mods vs Rockers, and more current examples of rappers or
grime artists. This social ‘othering’ is to intentionally carry across a message to the audience of fear
and further detach them from public understanding. Consequently, othered groups are viewed as
inherently allied with deviance or even criminal activity.
Stan Cohen’s (1972) Folk Devils and Moral Panics cemented and reinforced Young’s (1971) notions
of ‘moral panic’ and ‘deviancy amplification’ to emphasize the potency and momentum the mass
media has the capacity to generate ‘social problems’ and their resultant public crises of confidence.
In the book Trouble with Kids Today: Youth and Crime in Post-wards Britain, Muncie (1984)
reiterated the significance of Cohen’s Folk Devils as enshrining the first coherent, verifiable study of
media amplification and its public consensus, amplifying the movement which saw itself dissecting
the role of the media in its reporting of events revealing how the mainstream media is able to
construct its own version of reality. To amplify ‘newsworthiness’, journalism is well familiar and
privy to distortion; a gross highlighting and focus upon what is considered newsworthy and attention
grabbing, as well as replication comprised of repetitive selective distortion., in to a version that sells.
As each news source is derived from an array of continents, countries, attitudes, and cultures, there
is a plethora of schools of thought as to what makes a news value. Journalistic practice revolves
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