Andrew Neil is slammed by a 10-year-old schoolgirl during sugar tax debate

Daily Mail


I found this article interesting because not only is a well-known TV broadcaster being slammed on TV but because he is being slammed by a 10-year-old. 

Veteran broadcaster Andrew Neil was "left stunned" during a debate about the sugar tax on children's channel CBBC when a 10-year-old girl demolished his argument and suggested he wasn't 'educated properly enough' to understand healthy living. The article describes the young girl as a "tough cookie" as she pulls out stats and statistics from her note.

I found that this article completely voids the perception that young people do not want to get involved with politics. Although some commentators argue that this was staged for the British Public, the embarrassment on Neil's face says so otherwise. 

This article is published in the Daily Mail which normally has a right wing stance as it is a conservative paper and this article appears to be undermining the child, giving the impression that she doesn't know what she is talking about

This would be a good, clear example of representation of age in my Media AS Exam 

How #BlackLivesMatter started a musical revolution

Written by Daphne A Brooks, in the Guardian discusses how the #BlackLivesMatter movement has hit the airwaves and is becoming a worldwide phenomenon.
BLACKLIVESMATTER

With a picture of Beyonce heading the article (seen left), she says that we are experiencing a new golden age of protest music and describes Beyonce as the biggest and longest-reigning megastar musician of her generation. Brooks then goes on to say how inspiring and influential Beyonce's half-time performance at the Superbowl was as Beyonce flaunted her signature all-female dance troupe as she executed an insurgent assault on the media.

She also goes on to talk about Kendrick Lamar's topic related single, Alright, which he performed at 2016 Grammy's in February, again also controversial.  Brooks calls this a new age of injustice, one with a heightened awareness of state violence and a national reckoning with the state-sanctioned dispersibility of black lives.  She also goes on to name some of the black lives lost which had sparked and fuelled the movement, for example, Tamir Rice, Jayvon Martin, Micheal Brown etc.

Brooks describes herself as a black Generation X, who has witnessed black violence from as far back as 1991 with the beating of Rodney King by LAPD officers. She is able to relate to the movement and it is quite clear through the use of her language that she is an advocate of the movement. I chose this article as I believe the #BlackLivesMatter Movement is something that has been running for a few years and for international stars such as Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar and others to be having a say and taking part in the movement is showing just how much the black community is coming together to fight the injustice no matter their celebrity status. This would be a good example in relation to the representation of race and issues in my MS1 Media Studies exam whilst mentioning the #Oscarssowhite boycott.

National and Regional Idenity

Representations of national identity are often reinforced and embedded in our culture. Our own identity is often defined by our difference in relation to other nations. Our perception of other nations is often stereotypical character traits.

‘Essex girls’ are represented in news articles and television comedy programmes as having a lack of intelligence and low moral standards. In the TV programme, The Only Way is Essex (TOWIE),  Essex girls are show to be "bimbos" and to only care for their looks and males. They are also seen as bitchy and catty.
 The opening scenes for the introduction proves my point further as glasses of champagne, make up and diamonds are thrown around the screen thus further giving the audience the impression what both females, and males in this instance, in this programme are interested in and what their world revolves around.

Another example of this is Made In Chelsea which represents the lifestyles of those living in the "posh" part of London, in particular Chelsea and Fulham. The opening scenes of the intro give the audience an insight into the type of lifestyle that the young and the rich live. We see expensive brands and fast cars. In comparison to TOWIE, the characters of this programme have inherited this money suggesting they all come from a background of wealth, again giving the impression of the type of lifestyle Londoners live in comparison to Essex.


Geordie Shore is another example of how those from Newcastle are represented. This show suggests that all young people from Newcastle do is drink, engage in sexual activity and eat junk food.

National identity is a complex issue – people may disagree about what makes a national identity or that it exists at all!

Other factors may also be related to identity – Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Religion, Class and Sexuality. These make the concept of a national identity even more complicated.

This is also complicated by the idea of Regional Identity as well.

Regional Examples:

•Scouse (Liverpool) identity

•Geordie (Newcastle) identity

•Essex boy/girl (Essex) Identity

•Yorkshireman (Yorkshire) Identity

National Examples:

•Scottish (Scotland) identity

•Welsh (Wales) identity

•English (England) Identity

•Northern Irish (Northern Ireland)

•British (all of the above)

The online music entrepreneur on Richard Branson, bike races and living like a caveman

Jamal Edwards

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/jamal-edwards-interview-the-online-music-entrepreneur-on-richard-branson-bike-races-and-living-like-a6911426.html

Edwards is the founder of SB.TV, a broadcasting company that makes music videos and features them on its YouTube channel

In an interview with The Independent, Edwards says 'Too much social media gives you a headache, damages your eyes. It upsets the whole system'.

British internet entrepreneur, Jamal Edwards has a net worth of $45 million.

Jamal is the creator of SB.TV (SmokeyBarz) and now owns Just Jam, a subsidiary label of Sony record. SB.TV is an online broadcaster that has attracted millions of hits for its artists, including Professor Green and Ed Sheeran. He started SB.TV at the age of 16 with a video camera he got for Christmas

Nick Duerden had an in-depth interview with the millionaire about his general lifestyle, he says "School grades don't define your life I wasn't very good at school. I didn't get the grades I needed to get into college, so I had to do an extra year. But the subjects didn't interest me. I preferred practical stuff to theoretical"

He also goes on to mention that his ambition is to be an inspiration "Kids say to me they want to look up to someone like Richard Branson, but it's hard as he is not within their reach. I tell them that I'm friends with Richard Branson. He is within my reach, and I am in their reach. He inspires me, and I hope I inspire others likewise"

Although not your typical weekly news article, this is very inspirational as it shows that you can literally start from something so small and make something very massive out of it. The Independent is regarded as coming from the centre-left, on culture and politics so by promoting a story like Edwards, is showing just how cultural they can be.

UNTOUCHABLE

Untouchable is a 2011 French comedy-drama film directed by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano. It stars François Cluzet and Omar Sy. It has won a number of awards including NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding International Motion Picture. The plot of the film is inspired by the true story of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo and his French-Algerian caregiver Abdel Sellou


This movie would make an outstanding case study for the Media AS exam as it fits into a range of representation categories including: Race, gender, issues, and ethnicity. One example of issues is stereotyping as when the main character Driss walks into the job interview and is dressed, unlike the other candidates. When walks into the interview room, is assumed to be in the wrong building. This movie also plays up to the stereotype as he walks in and demands his paper to be signed so he can gain his benefits. 

After four weeks, by 25 November 2011, The Intouchables had already become the most-watched film in France in 2011.After sixteen weeks, more than 19 million people had seen the film in France. On 10 January 2012, The Intouchables set a record, having been number one for ten consecutive weeks since its release in France. The film has grossed $166 million in France and $444.7 million worldwide as of 12 May 2013.On 20 March 2012, The Intouchables became the highest-grossing movie in a language other than English with $281 million worldwide. It broke the previous record set by the Japanese film Spirited Away ($274.9 million), also breaking the record for the highest-grossing French film, surpassing The Fifth Element ($263.9 million). In July 2012, it became the top grossing foreign language film of 2012 in North America, surpassing A Separation

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