Who is being represented?
In this article, a young (teen), British black male is being presented, stereotyping that youths are more violent and that black people are more included in the riots. This also represents people who are more of lower, working classes (chavs). This is shown through the use of clothing worn by the main person in the image. The person, male, is wearing a track suit which is stereotypical clothing of someone who is young, poorer, etc. This article is largely stereotypical because as soon as an audience read it, they imagine a violent youth with black skin. This is being presented through the positioning of the features in the photos, the Sun have put the dark figure in front of a burning car, implying that he is responsible and therefore, violent. This image has been photo-shopped with the two images conjoined to make the main person seem guilty for causing chaos putting the blame on the younger generation. They have put the flames behind him to symbolize danger and making the audience feel threatened by the hooded figure. Causing more fear in their readers, the sun chooses to put the headline 'ANARCHY' in block capitals in very big writing to warn the readers of the violence and almost to scare them that there is revolt due to anti-government behavior caused by youths.
Who is being represented?
In the main article of this front cover, Muslims are being presented in a bad light, showing a stereotype that most Muslims are terrorists which is a common stereotype because of the way terrorists are portrayed. Some people fear Muslims because of this as when terrorists are presented in the world, they claim to be from the sae religion so therefore, the stereotype comes from this as they are considered the same religion so must have the same ideologies. This is portrayed in this article through the use of bias through statistics and images, when talking about the religion, the paper puts a photo of a terrorist next to it instantly showing a link between the two. Also through the use of statistics by using '1 in 5' it makes it seem that a lot of Muslims in the UK support terrorists. This is shown to make the audience feel fear of the religion by stereotyping them as bad people who want to kill everyone which shows to be working as a number of people believe this.
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