TELEVISION NEWS AND THE SYMBOLIC CRIMINALISATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE
- 6 February 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journalism Studies
- Vol. 9 (1), 75-90
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14616700701768105
Abstract
This essay combines quantitative and qualitative analysis of six UK television news programmes. It seeks to analyse the representation of young people within broadcast news provision at a time when media representations, political discourse and policy making generally appear to be invoking young people as something of a folk devil or a locus for moral panics. The quantitative analysis examines the frequency with which young people appear as main actors across a range of different subjects and analyses the role of young people as news sources. It finds a strong correlation between young people and violent crime. A qualitative analysis of four “special reports” or backgrounders on channel Five's Five News explores the representation of young people in more detail, paying attention to contradictions and tensions in the reports, the role of statistics in crime reporting, the role of victims of crime and the tensions between conflicting news frames.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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