1. The Daily Mail

2. Application of Moral
Panic
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3. Monday August
08 2011
 The sense of a moral panic is created
through the image. The fire is out of
control, and there is only one fire-
fighter to deal with it (presumably
there were more at the scene but the
image is only focussing on the one
fire-fighter). There is no sign of water
or any control of the fire, it’s been left
alone to burn. This creates a moral
panic because it suggests the riots are
out of control and need more control.
This can be linked in with the use of
the word ‘Blunder’ as it shows the
emergency services are overran and
that there should be more people
working for the emergency services
so that situations like this wouldn’t
occur.

4. Tuesday August
09 2011
 The moral panic is still present at this point. It
shows a chav walking away from a burning
car, walking quite aggressively with an angry
look in his eyes towards the camera, which
singles out the audience reading the newspaper
and making them feel threatened creating a
moral panic. The burning car in the background
also adds to this impression of fear in the
audience, because a car is something most
would use every day and the fact one has been
showed destroyed would make them afraid and
would cause a panic because they can relate to
it.
 The use of the word ‛Anarchy‛ helps to keep
this constant moral panic flowing through the
audience’s mind. The word itself suggests a
lawless society, where everyone is free to be
delinquent and immoral- threatening
hegemonic values- and the fact it’s ‚spreading‛
suggests that the entire country would become
like the riots, creating fear in the mind of the
audience as they wouldn’t want that to happen
to their part of society.

5. Wednesday
August 10 2011
 The moral panic is still present, but
starting to decrease at this point.
There is still a fire, again creating the
fearful representations. But the photo
also shows armed police in the
foreground who seem to be in control
of the situation, decreasing the
amount of moral panic there is. This
is because it shows the situation
becoming more under control and
suggesting the riots are dying
down, and as this dies down, so
would the moral panic created in
society. This can be linked in with the
headline- ‚Fightback‛ as it shows the
Police and emergency services
fighting back against both the riots
and the moral panic it created.

6. Friday August 12
2011
 By this point, most of the moral
panic seems to have died down.
There is no threatening images or
language used on this page. The
headline sounds more like a quote
that would be spoken in court to
the rioter by a judge, suggesting
that the riots are under control
and have ceased, with those
involved currently being
punished, restoring hegemony
and ending the moral panic.

7. How does the newspaper
coverage change as the riots
progress?

8. The Daily Mail posted an article the day after Mark Duggan was
shot by police. Article mentions that Mark Duggan is the reason
Tottenham riots sparked up. Mark Duggan was in a car being
followed by police during a covert operation by Trident. One
witness said the Mark Duggan was an ‘elder’ from the
Broadwater Farm Estate, a short distance away from where the
shooting took place. It is believed that two shots were fired by a
firearms officer and a non-police issue handgun was recovered
from the scene. Local MP David said: 'I am shocked and deeply
worried by this news. There is now a mood of anxiety in the local
community but everyone must remain calm.’
Mark Duggan is portrayed as the bad guy from press and this is
emphasised with the photo used of him showing him to do a
pose in a gun like shape. This is one of the first images we see of
Mark Duggan and because it’s the first image we see of him we
instantly see him as the bad guy because of the situation that he
is in but also the image chosen by the press of him.

9.  Violence in Hackney, Peckham, Deptford, Lewisham, Clapham and Croydon
this evening
 Prime Minister David Cameron is returning from Italy tonight to chair
COBRA meeting
 Met's acting commissioner Tim Godwin urged parents to get their children
off the streets
 Police in Birmingham say several shops have been attacked
 300 officers drafted in from 12 other forces to bring unrest under control
 215 people arrested since Saturday night - including one aged 11 - and 25
charged
 At the beginning of the riots the News Paper articles by The Daily Mail
presents the shocking news of all the events in which have taken place by
the rioting and as an audience we are left shocked that children younger
than seven are participating within this excruciating event.
7th August 2011

10.  Two days into The London Riots Deputy Prime Minister steps in and visits
one of the areas affected by the riots. Nick Clegg visits Tottenham and talks
to local businesses who’s been a victim in the attacks. From the first day
when The Daily Mail claimed it was Mark Duggan’s death which sparked up
the riots, Nick Clegg now says 'Let's be clear, the violence we saw last night
had absolutely nothing to do with the death of Mr Duggan.’ The riots are
now being portrayed as people taking the opportunity to take advantage of
the crisis for needless theft and violence amongst the businesses who have
lost their shops and are frightened to be in their own neighbourhood. The
Daily Mail now move to talking about the people involved in the riots, to the
rioters being young and predominantly black men. The articles posted on
The Daily Mail websites talk about racism ‘if there is racism in Tottenham,
it’s not white on black. The racial tensions involve hostility between
Jamaicans, Nigerians, Cypriots, Albanians, Kurds and a host of Eastern
European newcomers.’ The movement from anger of Mark Duggan’s death
has now escalated out to massive proportions. Mark Duggan’s girlfriend and
mother of his three children has her say and portrays a different image to
what The press are portraying him as. The Daily Mail captions an image of
him saying he is a ‘gangsta’ whereas his girlfriend says that he was a Mark
was a good dad. He loved his kids dearly. He idolised them.’
8th August 2011

11.  As days go on the rioters are said to be motivated by their rage at
inequality, deprivation and unemployment. Some have blamed police brutality;
others have wailed about ‘Tory cuts’ on the closure of youth clubs. The article
posted by The Daily Mail is now looking at riots in the past but there is more
emphasise on the ‘youth’ stating that we should also recognise that this kind of
mindless aggression, masquerading as protest, is not confined to the world of
inner-city black youths. Over the past year, we have witnessed disgraceful scenes
on the streets of the capital, where the perpetrators have largely been
white, privileged middle-class students.’ In comparison to The London Riots this
time the article is contrasting the two different lifestyles of youth today. The student
protest which was the middle class fighting for education to The London Riots
focusing on the unemployed lower class fighting for youth club centres. The youths
are having more emphasises as the riots progress. The youths are stealing from
shops such as mobile phone shops and sportswear outlets. As the riots get more
out of control police are having to use armoured police vehicles to push back more
than 150 people in Clapham, despite the 334 people already arrested. The riots are
sparking up youths across the country to riot in their own neighbours – This shows
the progression which from London where the Mark Duggan happened which the
original reason for the protest was about. Talks of social networking has become the
core of how youngsters are going about targeting businesses, encouraging one
another to loot. Social networks such as Twitter, Blackberry messenger and
Facebook showing images of stolen goods.
9th August 2011

12.  Growing fear of who’s next in the riots cause innocent
members of the public to fear. After businesses in Ealing were
destroyed and the public were not protected from the police
members of the public were willing to put the law into their
own hands to protect themselves. Croydon were also hit.
Badly hit was a furniture store which had been around for 144
years. The owner of the shop stated ‘Children used to be well-
behaved then but these days it doesn’t seem to be the case. A
lot of them leave school without the basic skills. And
sometimes parents aren’t doing their job. You see police going
around town and they’re too afraid to do anything.’ The
articles are now basing putting the blame on the parents of the
riots but also the police for not protecting them which is their
job. Another woman who’s business was destroyed in the
attacks also blames the parents saying ‘They were mainly
young teenagers. What were their parents doing letting them
out at this time?’
10th August 2011

13. How is the newspaper
coverage being mediated?

14. ‘But as night struck, the police line
backed off and the streets became
lawless.’
‘Riot police left the scene after they came
under light bombardment from projectiles’
In Notting Hill, West London, diners
eating in the two Michelin star Ledbury
restaurant were attacked and mugged at
their tables as rioters swept through the
area.
A woman and small child were taken by
ambulance to hospital with burns and breathing
difficulties after a shop below their flat was set
ablaze.

15. Croydon They Show this:
And not this: