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Media representations in soap operas

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Phil Mitchell is being represented as rough, aggressive, and a thug. This reinforces the stereotype of people from the east end being violent and aggressive. This representation is exaggerated because he's shown to resort to violence after everything and his anger is extremely over exaggerated. Phil is a male and a male stereotype is that men are violent Phil reinforced this. This representation reinforces the stereotype because it isn't doing anything to challenge it. its reinforcing it while also making it more exaggerated. This is a news article about Millwall and West Ham fans fighting. This article reinforces the stereotype of people from east London being violent and aggressive as Millwall fans are from the east end. The other character,Dexter, is challenging the stereotype of black people being thugs. He's challenging this because he's trying to make amends with Phil and it trying to make a living because he just wants a job. He's being r...

Media representations in the news

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/14/north-korea-threat-sink-japan-us-ashes-darkness The news item has put an intercontinental ballistic missile launching. They have done this to show that North Korea has the capability to attack countries. The article is about Korea 'sinking' Japan. The word sink means that they will completely destroy Japan. This makes people scared as if they have the ability to sink a country then what else can they do? They could have used North Korea 'attacks' Japan as people already know they can attack other countries but the use of the word sink makes Korea seem more dangerous. This article was the first one on the page and was bigger than the others to bring attention to it. This will have been chosen because it was the biggest piece of news there was. They chose this over any other news story that came in that day. They may have chose this because it could cause thousands of deaths in the world. People who read this will be...