Gender in the media

This article features a negative representation of men, particularly those from the ages of 18-22 (average university age), suggesting they're perverted and are unable to control themselves from performing derogatory acts towards women. The title features an enigma code to encourage the readers to read on in order to take more information from it. The article goes onto say that over 99% of women in Egypt have been subject to sexual harassment of some form regardless of what they're wearing or how they act.

This article features a positive representation of women in that they are doing a seemingly selfless act in order to raise awareness for Cancer Research UK. It beats the stereotype that teen mothers are somewhat 'bad news' and shows a positive approach and reinforces that they are capable of doing good. It later goes on to say she lives with her fiancé and is studying for a degree in criminal psychology. The stereotypes of most teen mothers is that they're single and doing low paid labour or are on benefits, however having this girl featured challenged the stereotype.  

This article creates a negative representation of this woman as it sexualises her by using images in which she is wearing revealing clothing. It says that she has had breast implants at the taxpayers expense. This is to create an ever stronger negative representation as people who work have to pay taxes and they will most likely feel angry to this woman, as well as the government, that this is what their money is being spent on. She vowed to reimburse £4,800 due to the negative responses which came from when she was first featured in the news. To raise the money she fell into prostitution and became pregnant and is unaware as to who the father is. There is very little positivity about this article other than that she tried to reimburse the money wasted on her implants as she now wants them removed, however this will cost more of the tax payers' money. There is an enigma code in the title as most people would find it unusual to have plastic surgery on the NHS so they would want to read more in order to find out why such a thing happened. 

Further on in the article, the journalist writes about how a young girl with cerebral palsy was refused  surgery in order for her to be able to walk. There is a high contrast between the girl and this woman, the readers feel sympathy for the girl and anger for the woman as the NHS have favoured body image over something which is fundamental basis of humanity. 

Audience: Baby Faced Brides

This is a program about young people committing to marriage at a seemingly young age. The audience has the potential to be aimed at a large group of people. It could be girls their age watching it and comparing their not committed relationships to theirs and it could also be to young girls in a long term relationship or who are planning on getting married at a young age who are able to relate to these young brides. Some people, of any age, may watch this for information purposes and hope to gain in depth knowledge on what goes through these young brides' minds.
The producers would like people to take away a non judgemental image of people who get married young. Many people believe it's because they have had a child out of wedlock, which in the majority of these instances is true, however there is a couple who have not had a child nor is she pregnant. If the viewers get a better insight into their life they may not judge them on the fact they are young parents and possible respect them for making a proper nuclear family basis for the child. The oppositional reading would be that people would not relate to it and not find any personal identity or gain any, what they see as, useful information and disregard any of the information presented to the audience. The negotiated reading is that the audience would not gain much from it but understand how people may gain a lot of knowledge and personal identity from it and enjoy the program.