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Criminology Unit 1 - 1.4 - Media representation of Crime
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Media - outline & include information Examplesabout fictional and factual (Fictional & factual)
Newspaper: An example is the terrorist attacks in
Most newspapers tend to report the August 2017 in Barcelona. A tabloid
more serious, dramatic crimes such as headlined the attack as ‘Barcelona
murders and stabbings. Newspapers Bastards’. Similarly the Broadsheet
report factual crime despite often being newspaper titled it ‘Evil strikes again’.
exaggerated. Both papers sensationalised the crime
As well, celebrities who commit murder by over exaggerating it and reported it
will be reported about in the news since in a similar way.
it has that shock factor to engage The tabloids dramatise the story a lot
readers. more for the shock factor in order to sell
The papers usually use dramatic terms paper in comparison to the
and focus on the negative aspects of Broadsheet. The broadsheet is still
the crime, as if to scaremonger. They dramatic but not as over the top but
include sensationalist language to over still intriguing enough to encourage the
exaggerate and dramatise the crime. reader to read the paper.
The News Values depend on its shock
factor and if it meets the criteria. If it's Tabloid- newspaper with many pictures
dramatic and violent then it meets the with small pages and short stories, eg:
news values criteria. News values criteria the sun
are immediacy ( breaking news), Broadsheet- printed on large sheets of
dramatisation, personalisation, higher paper. Eg: The Times.
status persons, simplification, novelty or
unexpectedness, risk and violence.
News values are the criteria that they
fl;low to decide whether a story is worthy
enough of being published in order for it
to sell lots of papers.
Anti-social crime is currently the most
common type of crime recorded at
77,000 crimes in December
2019.However, after looking at the
Guardian and Daily Mail, they are rarely
reported due to lack of public interest
and shock factor. This is because the
general public would not be interested
and therefore wouldn’t purchase the
paper.
In comparison,on the office for national
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