Historical text analysis and research
1981 Brixton riots
The 1981 Brixton riot, or Brixton uprising, was a confrontation between the Metropolitan Police and protesters in Lambeth, South London, England, between 10 and 11 April 1981. The main riot on 11 April, dubbed "Bloody Saturday" by TIME magazine, resulted in almost 280 njuries to police and 45 injuries to members of the public over a hundred vehicles were burned, including 56 police vehicles; and almost 150 buildings were damaged, with thirty burned. There were 82 arrests. Reports suggested that up to 5,000 people were involved.
These two images above are newspaper front pages from the 1981 Brixton Riots and the 2011 London riots. From the two images we can see the differences in the images as the one on the left from the Brixton riots show the police holding off the rioters as they are being attacked, this is also an image which has been hand drawn. In addition to this the title of the paper also says "To think this is England" this shows us that the paper then blamed the whole country for these events all though it was only a small part of the country that took part. Also, they didn't target a specific minority when they were talking about who was involved. This newspaper also promotes the fact that England was going through and moral panic and that they were all together.
On the other hand, the second paper from the 2011 riots is completely different to the first paper. This is automatically visible from the title which says "Flaming morons" this shows us that they are directly targeting a group of people who were involved, in addition, the use of image is also quite extreme as they have an image of a burning car in the background of a youth in a hooded jumper. This shows us how much societies morals have change as back in 1981 if something happened in the UK the media would blame them selves as a whole where as now the media is attacking certain groups of different people(Mainly Minorities). Also, there is a quote which says "Thugs and thieves terrorise Britain's streets" this shows us that the media are portraying the youth to be the only victims as they didn't focus on the reasons behind it" The media also try to make the people who participated in the riots to not be part of the British society as they may be ashamed of what's happened.
These two images above are newspaper front pages from the 1981 Brixton Riots and the 2011 London riots. From the two images we can see the differences in the images as the one on the left from the Brixton riots show the police holding off the rioters as they are being attacked, this is also an image which has been hand drawn. In addition to this the title of the paper also says "To think this is England" this shows us that the paper then blamed the whole country for these events all though it was only a small part of the country that took part. Also, they didn't target a specific minority when they were talking about who was involved. This newspaper also promotes the fact that England was going through and moral panic and that they were all together.
On the other hand, the second paper from the 2011 riots is completely different to the first paper. This is automatically visible from the title which says "Flaming morons" this shows us that they are directly targeting a group of people who were involved, in addition, the use of image is also quite extreme as they have an image of a burning car in the background of a youth in a hooded jumper. This shows us how much societies morals have change as back in 1981 if something happened in the UK the media would blame them selves as a whole where as now the media is attacking certain groups of different people(Mainly Minorities). Also, there is a quote which says "Thugs and thieves terrorise Britain's streets" this shows us that the media are portraying the youth to be the only victims as they didn't focus on the reasons behind it" The media also try to make the people who participated in the riots to not be part of the British society as they may be ashamed of what's happened.
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