Student Demonstrations - The Media's Story

The media have been surprisingly calm about the student demonstrations with institutions such as the guardian being open minded about the cause of the protest. The riots in the summer has provided students with masses of bad press and I think that as a result of the vendetta against students in London in the summer institutions such as the guardian and the independent are trying to compensate for the stories which took hold of the headlines and transformed all students into nasty criminals

The Guardian newspaper played down the recent demonstrations often comparing it to last years demonstration which was a catastrophe, they complemented the students for there behaviour while of course drawing on the minority who spoiled the peaceful demonstrations, while reporters did not print stories which painted these students as devils they merely belittled the demonstration comparing the numbers of people which turned out with last years demonstration often commenting that “it was an easy task for police” Although institutions such as the guardian did not stand against students is used them to complements services such as the police who have also received recent bad press and therefore this was an opportunity for faith to be restored in a vital services which everyone should be able to depend on.

In the many articles written about the student protest nearly all reporters emphasised the fact that small minorities of students had come to the demonstrations with the intention to fight yet this was not the majority but was clear to the reader. In my view I feel that this is an exercise by a variety of institutions in the media industry to blame the problems which occur in the UK on students, this demonstration was the perfect opportunity for the problems of politics to be blamed on the people on the street as it is vital in the business world that it is seen that politicians are always correct and the fact no one has the right to disagree with them.

Many articles produced about the student demonstrations are often fabrications of the truth. However due to this demonstration be deeply uneventful unlike the last one this provided a big void for the papers front page and therefore it was up to the editors to fill this gap with information, true or not, but as this demonstration was uneventful the easiest solution would be to retell the events of the last student demonstration and combine it with the riots of the summer and focus on them issues. Many articles focus on these issues with a mere two paragraphs stating facts and comments from the student demonstration which has just occurred. This shows how the platform of print has become corrupted and interested in one thing; selling papers this has recently been validated by the exposure of Rupert Murdoch. The newspapers mainly as well as different institutions continuously fabricate stories halving there stories and halving them again may achieve just some of the truth.