How Does The Media Represent Gun Crime? - My Own Personal Opinion

I believe that the media does the following things when representing gun crime:

* It puts emphasis on the minority, thus creating a bigger issue than neccessary.
* It stereotypes youths: black teenagers are the trouble-makers, they cause all crime, they are the ones who are always involved in criminal activity.
* The media don't tend to acknowledge that other races are involved in gun and knife crime - the media just brush under the carpet the fact that Asians and whites take part in these criminal activities, the numbers are just smaller.
* The media makes correct yet innaccurate statements about the statistics of young black men that turn to crime: they come from single parent homes, they are financially unstable, they dont do well at school in comparison to other races, they have low aspirations and they live in poor boroughs.
* The media focus on certain cases of gun crime - not all of them - and thus draw awareness to the fact that 'another teenager has been shot in Lambeth' - whereas they may not follow up a story when there was a white-on-white shooting in Enfield.
* The media control what stories they air and thus can carry reinforce the stereotype even further.