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the 2 media texts im looking at is film and website in the way they represent the london youths.over the years they have been decribed as.....recently london youths have been talked about alot because of  the london riots that went on this summer.they have been decribed in the newspapers as ''thugs and theifs'' flaming morons'' voilent mobs'' and many other abusive words.no adays london teens are seen as negative voilets thugs and most articles in the newspapers are about negative aspects such as crime drugs voilence.
based on Chomsky's theory on propaganda if you relate it to the recent london riots and how the media interpreted  it, chomsky would say there are two sides of the story but only one is told because thats the propaganda.during the riots most news papers and news agencies put their main focus on the bad disgraceful behaviour of the london youth,they never went in depth as to why or what caused the riots.you could say these agencies only publish what they think the people want to see or believe.Also with the news the have to be carful with what they put for the readers to see because negative comments towards the higher authority (in this case the government) could jeopardise their business. this is were the whole idea of ownership comes in as well as control.
the movie i am focusing on is kidulthood. a british movie based on london youth.they represent the youth as troubled kids livng in london.the main focus is on council estate kids that are pushed into hustling and crime in order to get money and be able to protect themselves According to Noel "The film touches a nerve. It’s on the pulse of what’s happening in society right now with young people. How they behave and what they do. Kids these days are growing up too fast. It’s accelerated because of technology and the media.The film shouldn’t shock people because it’s in the newspapers every day! It’s constant. It doesn’t show anything that isn’t happening. I was collecting articles for a year or so about teenagers getting up to bad stuff. There’s at least three or four a week.......in terms of website i am focusing on the british artist chipmunk's website which opens up about his music lyrics and life.chipmunk was brought up in tottenham,london.him and his family were working class and he was basically a typical london youth trying to make use of his life and talent. in his music he talks about how he use to live and how he struggled but avoided crime and went down the right path,some of his lyrics for instance are ''black belt can't teach you how to dodge bullets'' "from the bottom we rose" "if you ever knew what we sold to buy games" "i wanted to be famous,wanted lots of trainers now i buy the whole shelf" "14 year old in my hood got stabbed and died,i use to Cruz on my bike down that same road that he lost his life" "from a council estate yeah we made it,best things come from the worst places".........LIVE AND LOST-interaction with fans
history of london youth-see petes media blog
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