Joe Chadwick; 10L

     Bias nearly always exsists within the media, whether it be radio, newspaper or the tv

there is almost always going to be some element of bias. I will be examining how bias has

been used to present Derek Bently in two media texts. The first being a news paper article

from the Daily Mail and the second being the film about Derek Bently, "Let him have it".

In case you are wondering who Derek Bently acctually was, he was a young man of 19

years who was sentenced to death after taking part in a break in with a 16 year old boy

Christopher Craig. However one police man was killed and one injured in this break in by

Christopher Craigs gun. Both Craig and Bentley were arrested, Craig getting 10 years

imprisonment and Bentley getting sentenced to death due to him being an adult.

Apparently three words that Derek shouted just before Christopher fired the gun played a

major factor in Derek's sentence to execution. These words were "Let him have it". Now

those are the facts, I will be comparing the two media texts opiniums about Derek Bentley

and Chris Craig and how they present them differently to what really happened with bias.

     The first media text is an article tooken from the Daily Mail newspaper from the 3rd of

November 1952 and the facts as I have mentioned above are presented in a very

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difference way. The most recognizable example of this is the heading. The heading

immediatley shows us how the article is using bias to make the situation out to be much

more than it really was. The heading reads, "CHICAGO GUN BATTLE IN LONDON:

GANGSTERS WITH MACHINE GUNS ON ROOF KILL DETECTIVE, WOUND

ANOTHER." This is a completely bias heading with not even one element of truth. It

describes the situation as a Chicago gun battle and describes Derek Bentley and

Christopher Craig as gangsters with machine guns when infact they were two young

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