Within the early forms of media practices, journalists would exaggerate stories in which would usually be seen as a 'normal' headline in todays media. The reason why it was so exaggerated was because during the 1950's, it was common to abide the law meaning it was incredibly rare to see a news headline which highlighted aggressive behaviour.
There was a new extreme to exaggeration throughout regional newspapers within the 1960's due to the scandalous behaviour of sub cultures including mods and rockers. The exaggeration was usually represented by the use of explicit adjectives within the headlines of newspapers, an example would be from a headline written by the 'Daily Sketch' which pronounced 'Wildest Ones Yet'. The use of the adjective 'wildest' could be seen as quite controversial as the word usually refers to stray animals and what the journalist is trying to highlight is that the gangs are acting in a similar way. Also the way the Daily Sketch had written the headlines in capitals represents the awareness the newspaper are creating from the situation, they are trying to address more readers to be aware of the ridiculous situation which the mods and rockers are creation throughout Britain.
Another way various media texts created an representation of young people as being dangerous were through the use of images published throughout newspapers and television. These pictures usually displayed acts of neglect and danger towards consumers which then acted as a tool to help the consumer stereotype young people as being a danger to society. These pictures however only highlighted the more dangerous acts that the miniscule amount of young people would commit, thus causing a misinterpretation of young people even if they wern't involved in the gang violence.
There was a new extreme to exaggeration throughout regional newspapers within the 1960's due to the scandalous behaviour of sub cultures including mods and rockers. The exaggeration was usually represented by the use of explicit adjectives within the headlines of newspapers, an example would be from a headline written by the 'Daily Sketch' which pronounced 'Wildest Ones Yet'. The use of the adjective 'wildest' could be seen as quite controversial as the word usually refers to stray animals and what the journalist is trying to highlight is that the gangs are acting in a similar way. Also the way the Daily Sketch had written the headlines in capitals represents the awareness the newspaper are creating from the situation, they are trying to address more readers to be aware of the ridiculous situation which the mods and rockers are creation throughout Britain. Another way various media texts created an representation of young people as being dangerous were through the use of images published throughout newspapers and television. These pictures usually displayed acts of neglect and danger towards consumers which then acted as a tool to help the consumer stereotype young people as being a danger to society. These pictures however only highlighted the more dangerous acts that the miniscule amount of young people would commit, thus causing a misinterpretation of young people even if they wern't involved in the gang violence. 
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