negative representations in newspapers

Question 1

findlay

Answer 1

1989 - 2009

found a steep decline in use of brave to describe disabled people

journalists do not regard disability as newsworthy - tragic

Question 2

watson, phil and briant

Answer 2

2011 - tabloid newspaper coverage with mental health and hidden disabilities - negative

welfare scroungers

study compared media coverage of disability in five newspapers in 2010 - 2011 - with a similar period in 2004 - 2005 - reduction in the proportion of articles describing disabled people in sympathetic and deserving times