Working Class Disadvantage In The Media

Question 1

Price

Answer 1

Poverty porn to describe programmes such as benefit street where the underclass are exploited for the entertainment of the dominant classes

Question 2

Jones

Answer 2

Developed the concept of chavtainment to describe shows such as little britain, that portray a negative view of the working class as bigoted, slothful and aggressive which changes the views of the working class being described as the salt of the earth to the scum of the earth

Question 3

Milliband

Answer 3

Media is the new opium of the people meaning that it distracts the working class from the exploitation they are experiencing as it encourages mindless scrolling on apps such as Tik tok, preventing a revolution