Weekly Homework

Muslim Gang violence

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/20/mail-on-sunday-apologises-for-muslim-gangs-attack-immigration-van-story

This article is about a misunderstood statement against a group of Muslim boys in hoodies, that vandalised an immigration enforcement car. It was said that 'Muslim gang slashes tyres of immigration-raid can before officers were showered with eggs from high rise'. This caused great controversy as the audience believed that the articles was negatively targeting the Muslim community, instead of the individuals. 

• An article on July 26th said a gang of Muslim youths was responsible for damaging Home Office immigration enforcement vehicles in Shadwell, east London, in the week the prime minister appealed Muslims to help combat extremism.
• The mail on Sunday agrees to rewrite the story to remove the references to Muslims
• The coverage of Muslims in mainstream media continues to be very negative and there are too many sensationalist headlines that generalise about Muslims. 

In my opinion, I would argue that this is just practically racism as they have targeted all the Muslims rather than just the individuals who had vandalised the immigration officers car. They emphasising the fact that all Muslims are bad, which makes me feel upset as being an Asian individual.

Ad blockers are wreaking havoc with the online revenue of newspapers

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/04/eclipse-threatens-newspaper-giants-buying-digital-rivals

This article is about the effects ad blocker is having on newspaper revenues, research has found that moblile advertising overtaken print ads in the UK, which is 20% of the entire advertising revenue. Facebook and the social mob are becoming a news hub of their own for hundreds of millions of (often young) users –potentially eclipsing the value of discrete news websites.The ad blockers of this world are destructive forces, undermining the revenue base of so much news coverage. This article stays optimistic that this is a small obstetrical the newspaper industry can overcome.

• 20% of advertising revenue made by mobile advertising
• Ad blocker causing a decrease of the revenue for more industries
• the newspaper continues to go into a revenue decline 

In my opinion the newspaper industry should really consider ways to work with new and digital media as it is going to continue to grow which may have an even bigger effect on them, the most attractive thing about news on the internet is citizen journalism and people being able to communicate their ideas, so the newspaper industry should really consider that, as well as figuring out schemes to increase the quality of the news they produce.