The news article above is an extract taken from a BBC news
UK story about antisocial behaviour in young people. Even from the title of the
story clearly stating "Anti-social behaviour" we can tell that the
entire article is going to be a negative representation of young people. From
the outset of the article itself it starts with opening statistics to suggest
the idea straight away to the reader that young people are completely
antisocial. It states that "6% of the 1784 people in England, Wales and
Scotland surveyed by the YouGov said they would definitely intervene" a
very small percentage of even just a small proportion of the population
surveyed. Using these statistics however it is safe to assume that the results
would have been similar if the entire population was surveyed. Further down the
article it states "Policy Exchange said citizen police academies could
offer lessons in making citizens' arrests".
The issue clearly being addressed to the readers here is
that antisocial behaviour in young people across the entire country is a
problem, even to the extent that the majority of adults would not want to get
involved in dealing with these issues if they ever witnessed it themselves.
This article in particular from the information and statistics given such as
offering classes for people to do citizen arrests clearly represents young
people negatively due to the fact the main focus of the article is due to their
antisocial behaviour. The article makes no attempt to argue another point of
view such as representing young people’s successes in society therefore making
the article itself mostly bias.
The fact that this is written from the BBC as well who are a
reliable source does prove that the information they have given throughout the
article is correct, however the information is still bias as there is no
evidence to suggest the successes of young people otherwise. This article also
does not highlight the possible causes of the antisocial behaviour in the first
place. It makes no attempt to justify the initial causes of it, such as
possible influences from the media industry in the first place. Perhaps due to
so much negative representation by the media causes young people to act
antisocially in the first place out of anger the need to be considered more.
Overall this article is very bias although the information
given is reliable due to its source being the BBC, and more viewpoints need to
be considered as well as highlighting the possible initial causes.
Source? (BBC): 9/10
Reliable Information?: 8/10
How Bias?: 8/10
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