Representation of youth in newspapers - Riots

1. The Guardian Newspaper August 9th 2011

2. Metro 9th August 2011
Shocking video shows ‘scum’ stealingfrom
injured boy during riots
A video showing a distressed and bleeding teenager having his
bag ransacked by a group of youths during the London riots has
attracted the ire of web users who have slammed the
perpetrators as ‘scum’.
‘This is evil. A poor lad,
obviously in distress, sits
bleeding on the ground. He
is “helped” up and then
robbed,’ the uploader of the
clip, ReaderDriver, posted
as explanation.
‘I hope these scumbags are
caught. Filmed by Abdul Hamid. Posted here to show how evil
these people are. All credit to Abdul.’
‘This is a disgrace. Scum like
this are vile and worthless. Send
them to the frontline and see how
“fearless” they become,’ posted
viewer TrephineArtist.
‘All those people just walking by
and watching it. They all just
watched an injured, obviously
confused and dazed boy get stolen from right in front of their
eyes… there are literally no words to describe my disgust,’ said
fellow viewer rolexxx.’Enough pretending people are basically
good and courageous. We need to grow up.’

3. The Telegraph8th August 2011
London riots: the underclass lashes
out
London's rioters are the products of a crumbling
nation, and an indifferent political class that has
turned its back on them.
No one seemed surprised.Not the hooded teenagers fleeing home
at dawn. Not Ken and Tony, who used to live in Tottenham and
had returned to stand vigil over the missiles and torched cars
littering an urban war zone. Tony claimed to have seen the whole
thing coming.“This was
always going to happen,” he
said.
The police shot a black guy
in suspicious circumstances.
Feral kids with no jobs ran
amok. To Tony’s mind, this
was a riot waiting for an
excuse. In the hangover of
the violence that spread
through London,the uprisings seemed bothinevitable and
unthinkable. Over a few days in which attacks became a contagion
the capital city of an advanced nation has reverted to a Hobbesian
dystopia of chaos and brutality.