Ethnicity

Question 1

Hall

Answer 1

The black mugger

Question 2

Back

Answer 2

reporting of inner city disturbances involving ethnic minorities have been covered as ‘riots’ not ‘uprisings’
violent and irrational

Question 3

Dijik

Answer 3

: Media coverage implies the lives of white people are more important than others. The misfortune of one British person tend to be prioritised over thousands of foreigners. non-white victims of crime are not given the same amount of attention as white victims. ‘Subliminal racism’ in decisions made by editors

Question 4

Poole

Answer 4

Islam always been demonized and distorted by West ‘Threat’ to Western interests. Muslims ‘homogenized as backward, irrational, unchanging fundamentalists and misogynists who are threatening and manipulative in the use of their faith for political and personal gain. Poole’s content analysis of broadsheet papers between 1993 and 1996 found they suggested Muslims were a threat to security and mainstream British values