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6. Who notes that moral panics often result from media stereotyping of black people as potentially criminal?

  • Nandi
  • Watson
  • Richardson

7. Who conducted a content analysis of tens of thousands of news items across the world over several decades and found that representations of EM were stereotypical and negative?

  • Poole
  • Van Dijk
  • Philo

8. Who argued that Islam was demonised by the Western media - it has traditionally been portrayed as a threat to western interests and represented in a wholly negative way?

  • Poole
  • Nandi
  • GUMG

9. Who argues that TV coverage of ethnic minorities over focuses on crime, AIDs in Africa and black under achievement in schools, whilst ignoring the culture and interests of a huge black audience?

  • GUMG
  • Akinti
  • Van Dijk

10. According to Hall, who was the moral panic constructed around?

  • black mugger
  • afro caribbean males
  • muslims

11. According to Philo and Beattie, what did TV journalists always forget?

  • majority of the immigrants coming into the UK are here legally
  • immigrants in the UK had made a substantial contribution to economy
  • immigration figures were often over exaggerated

12. What 4 representations did Richardson find? (all correct)

  • The everyday issues and concerns of Muslim communities in the UK are not being addressed
  • British Muslim communities are almost wholly absent from the news
  • British Muslims are very rarely called upon as providers of informed commentary on news events
  • When they do appear it is usually in a predominantly negative context

13. Who argued that some sections of the right wing media collided with the state to create this moral panic by sensationalising events and labeling all young afro caribbeans as criminals and a potential threat to while people?

  • GUMG
  • Hall
  • Beattie

14. Who did Richardson study?

  • Asylum Seekers in the UK
  • British Muslims
  • Immigrants in the UK

15. According to Philo and Beattie, who are moral panics usually focused on?

  • refugees
  • immigrants and asylum seekers
  • muslims