15 year old school girl missing

A 15 year old school girl named Lauren from Essex has been missing for 3 days, after a man phoned her school pretending to be her dad. Her mum, Hayley, believes she has run away with a group of older men. The teenager told her mum she was going to stay with a friend but hasn't been seen since. Her mum believes that the older men are giving her alcohol so she can't look after herself. 

Mrs canon said: 'there are some who are older than lauren and some who were in their early 20's'.

'It has come out now that she has a life for herself that our family don't know about and friends who are completely oblivious to it. It is very worrying.'

Mrs Cannon said Lauren ran away when she asked for the mother's number of a friend she had claimed to have been with the night before. Her mum said this is nothing like her, she's expected to do well in her gcse's, there's been no bad behaviour to lead up to this and everyone who knows her would say she has a good heart. 

I believe it's important for these stories to be spread across the media not just to help find the missing girl but for the awareness to other teenage girls. It also shows how tradgedies like this can happen to the most ordinary of people, as she was just a typical girl prepared to sit her gcse's, like most teenagers are. 

Censorship essay

Censorship is used within every part of the media whether it’s films, music on the radio, music videos, on TV or social networking sites. The media contains censorship to prevent certain members of society coming across content which they shouldn’t see or hear. The reason behind this is so the most vulnerable in society aren’t affected by some of the explicit and harsh content that the media share for the public to see. In addition to this, censorship provides security for young people, as they are unaware and oblivious to the dangerous side of the media and the outcomes, as well as being vulnerable. Everything we see or hear in the media influences us and even has the ability to leave us scarred if we happen to see something indecent. Censorship acts as a barrier to what we should and shouldn’t be viewing.

For instance, if you think about censorship in films you’ll notice that there are restrictions, stating whom that film isn’t suitable for. The first one is age ratings. Age ratings exist as there is explicit content shown in many films that are inappropriate for young people. This would include sexual scenes, violence, nudity and bad language. These age ratings suggest that people who are under the age given, shouldn’t watch the film as it may influence them or have an impact on their life. For example, an age rating of a film may be 15 due to the amount of violence is contains. If a person under the age of 15 were to watch it, they may be influenced to use similar violence to deal with situations as that’s what they might consider to be normal. As said, the young are vulnerable and have little understanding between right and wrong. Furthermore, you’ll notice that before a film starts, there is a reminder as to what sort of content it contains. One example is that it’ll recommend people with epilepsy to not watch the film if there is a wide range of flashing images. This kind of censorship is to protect those who would be affected by it, which in this case would be a seizure. Therefore, a reminder is always provided prior to the film starting.

Another type of censorship is the watershed. The watershed is the time when programmes that are regarded as unsuitable for children are shown on TV. After 9pm, all channels are allowed to air programmes containing graphic content. Usually, by 9pm children are in bed so won’t have access to the TV and watch programmes that are inappropriate for them. Anything before 9pm wouldn’t show a lot of violence, horror/gore, swearing, nudity, drug use and many more. If they were to show any of this, it would be pin protected so children couldn’t watch it. Programmes and films containing this kind of content aren’t suitable for children because they are too young to be introduced to it. A child shouldn’t witness drug use on TV as it may influence them to use it later on in life, especially as the media doesn’t give a true representation of the effects of drugs. Children tend to follow in the footsteps of adults as they look up to them. If they are consistently watching programmes that contains foul language and is used in almost every sentence, it’s likely that a child would recognise this as normal and soon pick up from what they’ve learned before doing so themselves. Luckily, due to the watershed, it’s less likely for children to learn the darker side to TV programmes.

Two theives stole money from poppy tin in Croydon

The two men who stole a poppy tin from a builder’s yard in Croydon have been labelled the scum of the earth.

They were caught on CCTV breaking into Spring Lane Builders merchant, twice during Sunday morning. The CCTV shows them running off with cash before returning that night to steal a poppy appeal collection box.

The images of the two breaking in were posted onto social media by Olivia Betteridge, whose dad runs the business, in hope of catching them.

Olivia told the advertiser ‘these guys are absolute sum. I want them to be caught, you can’t go around doing things like this’. At 1am on Sunday morning Barry Whitmore received a call to say the alarm had gone off at the yard he runs with his son.

Mr Whitmore said "We've had break-ins before but this is the worst because of the time of year. People who donate to the Poppy Appeal often do so for personal reasons”.

"The tin had around £20 in it. We'd only had it a week. We've had one here for the last four years. We wanted to do our bit."

"You do something that's really rewarding only to get a kick in the teeth like this,”.

The break-in has now been reported to the police who have started an investigation.

I think what the thieves done was truly disgusting, especially as they didn’t care where and who were taking the money from. They decided to go through with something that would get them into so much trouble and be hated by the public, just to receive £20. I believe it was a good idea for Olivia to post a picture of the thieves on social media.

http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/Thieves-stole-poppy-tin-Croydon-break-branded/story-28099193-detail/story.htmlthey

Hanged teen failed by the police

A teenager who was hanged by a man obsessed with asphyxiating girls, was failed by the police and social services

Jamie Reynolds tried to strangle a girl in 2008 and went on to hang 17 year old Georgia Williams in 2013.

A number of agencies have jointly admitted a series of failures.

Her parents said: "If people had just done their jobs properly our daughter would still be alive."

Georgia’s parents said: "Having lost Georgia to pure evil, we cried when we read this report and the failings of all the agencies involved, because it was so obvious that Reynolds was, if not one already, a murderer in the making. Georgia’s death could’ve been prevented”.

Reynolds was jailed in december 2013, after admitting that he killed Georgia.

Chief Constable David Shaw, said: "We could have and should have done better. We let Georgia down."

 The Justice Liaison Service told Reynolds stepfather to tell the police about the pornography and drawings of his next victims, but the force did not act on them.Instead, Reynolds was given a final written warning by police.

CRASH analysis on stereotypes

 

Ethnicity-

Sarcastic, racist remarks that included mimicking of accents. At the beginning, an Asian woman was given grief for her bad driving, which turned into a heated argument where the other woman blamed her height (as Asians are usually short) for crashing, saying she couldn’t see over her steering wheel.

A scene showed how black men are thought to be dangerous or thieves as a woman clung to her husband after she saw the two black men approaching. She assumed they were going to either rob her hurt her in some way because they are black.

There was a lot of ignorance towards people whose first language wasn’t English.

A white Police officer used his authority to intimidate and patronize a black couple after pulling them over. The couple knew that the policemen was superior in that situation so accepted the way they were being spoken to and treated. The police officer had the characteristics of dominant ideology.

A black male, who is affiliated with criminal behaviour mentioned how he would never steal from another black person, only white. This shows how he has love for his own race. It could also show that he takes his anger out on white people as they’re the reason black people have a bad name.

Whilst a Mexican man was fixing a woman’s lock, she said she didn’t feel safe because she thought he was a thug who would give the keys to a gang member to get into her home. She was being ignorant because she just assumed he was a thug and that his tattoos were from prison, which gave her the idea that he would steal her keys. The film showed that he is actually a good man and a good father who moved away from a bad neighbourhood for his daughter’s sake.

Stereotypical black female names were used. A woman named Shaniqua was given the response “of course it is” after she stated her name.

Gender-

After a couple were pulled over by the police, the police officer began to take advantage of the woman. He touched her inappropriately and you could detect that it made her feel uncomfortable. Despite the fact he knew she disapproved, he continued because he clearly thought that it’s what women are for and are used to it. As it was an awkward situation, her husband didn’t know how to respond so ended up standing there, watching her being groped.

Presentation of adults in the media

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Cereal cafe attacked in East London

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033s7xb

A cereal cafe was attacked in Eat London due to their prices being ridiculously high. The mob, who were wearing pig masks said they were selling cereal up to £5 and stated that it was ‘pathetic’. The protestors smashed the windows, threw missiles and wrote the word scum on the cafe. It was said around 200 people were involved, who were anti capitalist. They named their selves the f*ck parade and claimed that they were protesting against unaffordable housing in east London.

A witness who was being interviewed told the reporters that the riot became so out of control, she had to barricade herself in her shop for two hours. She said she witnessed dogs running away as they were clearly frightened but the people involved in the protest were careless and were hurting them. The witness said that a person looked like they were about to tear the dog in half.

Protests are always making the news, but what makes this one absurd is what the protestors was rioting for. Usually, it’s against discrimination like the Ferguson riots which was over the police brutality on African Americans. However, this is a protest which got way out of hand over something trivial.

The news reporters took the story very seriously as they were having formal discussion with witnesses. It shows awareness to the public in east London that there is a lot of anger and violence continuing as an interviewee said there are lots of people protesting against unaffordable housing. There are many homeless people in London and the expensive housing strikes anger for the homeless.

The story isn’t biased as people were claiming to have understood their point. However, their actions were uncalled for and unnecessary.

CPR advert for British Heart Foundation

Star power – Vinnie jones is the protagonist  in the advert because he is well known in the UK. Star power is used to engage the audience and makes it seem more trustworthy.

Use of humour – “staying alive” is playing in the background, which relates to the advert as it’s about saving a person’s life. A human dummy slides across the floor for him to use as an example. It’s not what is expected in this kind of advert as they’re supposed to be serious but it’s different from most adverts so keeps the audience intrigued. Vinnie uses humour when he says ‘you only kiss your Mrs on the lips’. This also keeps the audience interested when humour is added.

Mode of address – using colloquial language makes the audience feel as though they’re being spoken to directly. The audience feel involved and are more likely to pay attention to the useful information he’s giving than if it were to be formal without any humour. He uses informal language such as ‘geezer’ and ‘aint’. He doesn’t use difficult words to confuse the audience, instead he keeps it simple so it’s a clear guide and easy to remember. He asks rhetorical questions such as ‘what do ya do?’ in order to get the audience thinking. He uses a harsh and powerful voice to get the audience listening and secure their attention. He sounds persuasive and carries out a direct address.   

Shots- a close up shot of his tattoo which spells ‘hard’. It’s referring to the way you need to give CPR, even though that’s not what his tattoo means. He later on says you need to press hard.

Text- they use sans serif font which is less formal as their target audience is aimed at a youth audience as they aren’t as aware about CPR as adults are. They use the colour red to represent blood because the advert is for the British Heart Foundation.  

Slogan- in the beginning it shows ‘it’s not as hard as it looks’ and is mentioned again right at the end. It’s to emphasise the fact that anyone can learn CPR. It also links it back to the beginning which makes the advert more effective.

At the end he asks the audience if they’d be interested in trying out one of their courses. This gets the audience involved and is also a simple way of getting more people to learn CPR.

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