The Cronulla riots officially began after a physical clash between a group of four Lebanese young men and three lifesavers on the beach (Poynting, 2006). The lifesavers started the clash by verbally insulting the Lebanese young men which had led the Lebanese men to attack the lifesavers. The incident was reported onto commercial media, newspapers and more, the media spoke about the incident for almost a week. The Daily Telegraph is an Australian newspaper company which sent out the first step of a moral panic known as the looming threat producing race hate and crime. Also, the Daily Telegraph announced it as the ‘battle of the beach’ whereas the radio station announced it as the ‘community show of force’ (Poynting, 2006). The riot was essentially a battle to show the Lebanese people whose area there in and to who the beach belongs to. As Cohen (1987) states that the mass media possesses a society of ideas due to behavior as well as the information gathered defines what is so called the ‘news’ and how it should be structed and presented
The Cronulla riots officially began after a physical clash between a group of four Lebanese young men and three lifesavers on the beach (Poynting, 2006). The lifesavers started the clash by verbally insulting the Lebanese young men which had led the Lebanese men to attack the lifesavers. The incident was reported onto commercial media, newspapers and more, the media spoke about the incident for almost a week. The Daily Telegraph is an Australian newspaper company which sent out the first step of a moral panic known as the looming threat producing race hate and crime. Also, the Daily Telegraph announced it as the ‘battle of the beach’ whereas the radio station announced it as the ‘community show of force’ (Poynting, 2006). The riot was essentially a battle to show the Lebanese people whose area there in and to who the beach belongs to. As Cohen (1987) states that the mass media possesses a society of ideas due to behavior as well as the information gathered defines what is so called the ‘news’ and how it should be structed and presented