Leveson Inquiry

Summary
National newspaper editors on Wednesday accepted the challenge laid down by David Cameron by agreeing to create an independent press regulator that meets all but the most contentious of Lord Justice Leveson's recommendations. Normally fiercely competitive tabloid and broadsheet titles agreed at a breakfast summit to 40 of Leveson's first 47 proposals – paving the way for the creation of a new regulator with powers to levy fines of up to £1m. It would also operate a low-cost tribunal system to handle libel and privacy claims. Lord Justice Leveson's 1,987-page report establishes the findings of his 17-month inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press. Jane Martinson offers a five-minute guide to exactly what the report says about the key issues.David Cameron has met newspaper editors and told them the clock is ticking for them to set up a new press regulator. The meeting comes in the wake of the Leveson report which called for an independent self-regulatory body for the press, backed up by legislation. Labour and the Liberal Democrats both support statutory underpinning, but the prime minister and the majority of Conservative MPs are against it.

My view

In my opinion I think that by them implementing this regulation will bring justice to the innocent people that were involved by these phone incidents and prevent it from happening again in the future. But then again on the other hand, making this regulation means that as the public will certain things be hidden from us? These legislations will mean that most information’s will be hidden from the public and as the upper classes that have more authority will have the choice of what we can and cannot see in the media.

Representation; Kidulthood

In the opening of Kidulthood the representation of young people is negative. The scenes that they show of the teenagers are typically wearing hoodies and in gangs that are groups of 3 or more within the playground just as expected when doing a typical representation of teenagers. Most of the teenagers that are shown are either committing crimes such as smoking weed, drilling a gun and bullying within the school facility or participating in sexual activities or promoting their ‘wild’ party whilst their parents are out of town.

These are the common representation of teenagers within the uk and they have all been placed in this one scene at one time that are being shown It can be argued that this is a fair representation of young people but it has been highly exaggerated but at the same time it can be argued against that as some young people  within the uk have never even experienced anything like this in their lives.

For the year that it was produced I think that it is a pretty good example of verisimilitude. The mise-en-scene within the environment created a real feeling of verisimilitude. For example the type of camera shots that were used were camera shots that made us feel that we were within the set at the time, with the type of angle shots used as the camera was swiftly going across the set to one group of teens to another to create that realness of us being actually their as if we were in the playground watching them and also from the type of cuts that were used as they were playing football within the playground as they made it seem as if we were in the playground and had to actually watch out from the ball, as if they were playing football around us whilst we stood in the playground.