Meanwhile, back at the house the other contestants were getting ready for a fancy dress party and consuming alot of alcohol. Big Brother then cleverly decided that whilst the housemates were locked up in the bedroom the two girls were to sneek back in with the food for the party, by this time the girls had plenty to say. Big Brother contestants had already made their way through 10 bottles of wine and were unable to control themselves. So when the food had arrived the housemates were let out to party some more when the girls suorised them with their 'heads on a plate'. This created shock and disbelief and none of them knew what to do except scream vigorously and disturbe the surrondings. After the initial shock things seemed to have calmed down until the memorys came back.
Emma blurts out that she and Michelle have been watching everything, and know that 'Victor and Jason have plans to get everyone out of the house'. This then turns into an outrageous food fight. After the house has resettled Emma,Nadia and Marco decide to annoy Victor and Jason by having a water fight and squirting them. This apparently upsets Vanessa and Shell and they take to sobbing in the toilet. Is this already getting too much? To top it all Jason, who is now very angry, starts violently bad mouthing at Nadia and Marco telling them to clean up the mess. Marco taunts Jason and Jason threatens to 'Knock the f**k out of you', this is when buddy Emma jumps inbetween. Jason without a care in the world, carries on until best friend Victor comes to help. Emma rather selfishly turns and faces Victor throwing abuse and Victor replys calling Emma a 'dirtbag'. Already I have lost my breath and Big Brother is booming with viewers however the intensity is overwhelming. Big Brother slyly tries to intervene however there is no stopping them now. Out of the blue Victor throws a glass of wine over Emma and she retaliates. This leads onto a big fight and Big Brother shamefully cuts the coverage why Big Brother security guards break it up. Now the question is Did they go too far?
Three different newspapers, middle market,tabloid and regional all assess the shenanigans of the previous night. The middle market paper is like the Daily mail and is slightly more on the political side. The tabloid paper is like The Sun and the News of the World, it is more of a gossipy paper which likes exaggerating. A regional paper is like the Eastern Daily Press a localised paper. From the content that they contain I would say that The Sun is a paper which I would be less likely to believe as it gossips alot and loves exaggerating. I would be more likely to take the middle market papers more seriously and find them more believable.
In a middle market paper the Daily Mail did a follow up on the 'Fight Night'. Everything which is said about Big Brother contains negativity. The title 'Big Brother sinks to new low on night of violence' is saying Big Brother was sad and it just got sadder. It contains reasons why the fight was caused by Big Brother. It contains a whole paragraph on why Big Brother was so mean. Everything the paper says is always negative to the reality show,'after deliberate' which suggests that Big Brother planned it. This automatically tells us as the reader that they are against BB. Compare this to a tabloid paper.
The Sun and The News of the World both did a article on the same issue, yet they had completely different opinions. 'They were able to view all the footage from Big Brother' this is implying that it wasn't the producers fault and they are co-operating and are perfectly innocent. It finds all the good aspects and defends BB. This is also the opposite to the Daily Mail and I wouldn't as a viewer have expected that. The Sun in my opinion would have been a gossipy paper however has BB made the one exception? Ther is no bad comments about Big Brother and it justifies itself. In the EDP, which is a regional paper, it again disagrees the innocence of BB. It compares the reality show with the real world and trys to make the reader think about the incident in a more realistic way. So actually did Big Brother give us a kick up the backside and make us see what our society is really like? 'If the disgraceful, snarling, swearing, violent altercation had taken place in the outside world the people involved would of surely been carted off for a night in the cells'.
However the EDP was not only negative and cruel about BB it criticised the contestants too. It states the obvious about each person and makes sure you know in their opinion what a horrible, nasty and different person you are,'camp Marco' and 'transexual Nadia'. The EDP is instantly giving the impression it didn't like BB or the contestants involved. Although The Sun and the News of the World weredefending BB it wasn't defending the housemates,'like caged animals' this shows instant dislike to the housemates and makes us interperate it like BB had nothing to do with it and it was all the housemates fault. From this evidence I can clearly say that the Daily Mail is the more appropriate paper. It contains both negative and positive points, showing us what our contestants are capable of 'Legal secretary Emma' and it also shows us what they are 'Wannabe glamour model' and 'Dim, pie faced geordie'.
The presentational devices is similar through out the papers, mainly pictures of Victor and Emma being restrained. In The Sun and the NOTW it starts with 'MOUTHY' this is a criticism and makes it stand out. It also contains a large picture of Stewart restraining Victor with lots of little pictures of Emma floating around. However the pictures say very little and there are no expert quotes to officialise thoughts. The main feature is 'ONE OF THEM IS GOING TO GET HURT' - written in large letters and reversedout.
In the Daily Mail before we read it we know it is serious due to the border 'Police and TV watchdog Investigating flare-up on reality TV show'. The paper also contains a BIG and BOLD heading to match the BIG and BAD picture of Victor Ebuwa. The amin feature of the article is the question written between the two different articles on this topic, 'What would a martian make of all this?'. The regional paper, The EDP likes the use of puns. Below the two pictures involving the 'fight' it has a large title of 'NOW IT'S BIG BOTHER', which can also suggest sarcasm. The line 'But not any more' has it's own line to make it important and stand out. In all three papers studied it uses similarity.In The Sun and the News of the World it has the use of a Hertfordshire police spokeswoman and a spokesman from BB. It uses rhetorical questions for example, 'Who is to say that the police won't want to talk to other housemates when they come out of the house?'. In the regional paper it asks several questions like 'How low can television go?' and 'Why else would they set up a potentially situation and ply the housemates with vast amounts of Booze?' these questions are asked to get the reader involved and thinking. In the Daily Mail it usesa vast amount of rhetorical devices. It uses the word 'erupted' which symbolises like a volcanoe exploding, expert quotes of pshycologists which say contestants aren't fit and it clearly cuts out all the swearing aswell. The word 'allegelly' says that it has not yet been proven, this is what they suspect. The comparison with the football outrage is constantly used reminding you what hooligans we really are!
In all three papers it condems how Big Brother set the situation off and how the contestants are so vile and rude enough to rise and act like animals at a zoo. The papers make it seem more outrageous and the expert quotes from pshycologists say that the contestants are unwell and this comes across as BB has hurt and damaged people who have both worked and took part in the show.
In my opinion I think that from what I have studied from the newspapers, the views of others and watching the program for myself that it is a disgrace to England and that it was set up for publicity. From here on the action I think they should take is by taking a break in the series and media and in the future launch it again proving people like myself and others that it wasn't anything to do with the producers purely drunken yobs.
