BBC News Tottenham 7th August 2011

Who do the reporters interview?

A reporter from the BBC news studio introduces a correspondent who explains the goings on that have been happening in Tottenham the following day. He then goes onto interview Commander Adrian Hanstock who works for the metropolitan police, he explained that they let the protest take place because they understand people have their own opinions/feelings towards what happened, however he didn't anticipate the violence to become that bad, so when they realised exactly how bad it was getting they stepped up more resources and brought more police officers e.t.c in. A response then came from David Lammy, a local labour MP. Throughout he's speech you can feel the anger he has towards the rioters as he says "For those who wanted to come to Tottenham to cause violence, to stay away!" He also explains the town has spent 25 years building up trust and community and it's been ruined by mindless nonsense. A masked black man was then interviewed, he's name was not given but he discussed how Mark Duggan was he's friend and he can't in anyway see how he would jump out of a car (which is surrounded by police and throw fire) because it "wouldn't make sense".
A correspondent is then seeing walking around the estate were Duggan was attacked and chats to Sonia (full name didn't want given out) who explains many teenagers have left school and don't have jobs and it's not because they don't want to work it's because the unemployment rate is so high. Two local boys explain how the main youth centre has been closed down due to high wage cuts and that's the place many of them hung around so they are being affected. The other talks about the police's relationship with youths is not pleasant and they feel like they have to smash things up or cause a problem before their voice gets heard.

What images are used in the broadcast? What does this suggest about representation of the riots?

Most of the images show battles between the rioters and the police. Then other images show the damage that has been caused in all of the towns, major fires, looting, violence towards others e.t.c. There are also quite a few shots of the location of flats where Mark Duggan was killed which give a clear understanding to viewers about the community he lived in and by having a recording of one of he's friends explaining how he shouldn't have been killed shows how close these youths where to each other and how one man getting killed can escalate into such a big situation.

Is the broadcast biased?

Throughout the whole news report the reader explains how violent the youths have been and how much they have effected the community that people of Tottenham have to live in. I don't necessarily think that they are being biased towards the youths and targeting them in a negative light, just like the previous clip they are just telling the viewers exactly what has gone on. In this broadcast especially they have interviewed a few youths but also MPs and local residents to show they have let everyone equally have their own say.

Are youths given a fair voice?

Compared to the other clip this one actually shows footage of youths being interviewed and having the chance to give their opinion and say about what's gone on. They explain exactly why the riots may have started and why it was mainly youths involved, I believe that each of them get long enough to fight their ground and explain what they want to say just as much as the other people that are interviewed because no one speaks over the youths and goes agaisnt what they are saying because they have no right, why would they talk in front of the world to lie about something, just because most of the rioters where youths doesn't mean everyone of them is.