Hillsborough disaster

The Hillsborough disatser, where a human crush occured during the FA cup semi- final between Liverpool and Nottingham, was a tragically devastating event which resulted in 96 deaths.

  What made the disaster arguably even more tragic was the representation of the media, which had significant consequences. The media were being told by the police "They were arriving tanked up on drink and the situation faced by the officers trying to control them was quite simply terrifying." This resulted in headlines in the newspapers such as the one shown putting the blame onto the fans saying they were drunk and sneaked in without tickets. This presented the fans as horrible people while the police are represented as the caring ones trying to help the injured. This would only have made the already devastated families who had lost loved ones more upset as they're family or friends who had lost their lives were being blamed for it. People who didn't have family and friends involved in the disaster would probably have read the headlines and believed them as it is the connotation of the stereotypes of the police and fans. Poloce being caring and helping while fans are drunk and uncaring.

It was only 23 years later when the real truth was revealed that the police were actually to blame and the media had got it wrong. This denotes what stereotypically the police would do, they would normally help and care for the injured instead of blaming them for it.