Research into the media aspects

Some of the research I have used in my dissertation comes from Domeneghetti’s ‘From the back page to the back door’ (2017), this research looks at the media and how sports journalists are dominated by football. This specific section of the book looks at the media effects of the Hillsborough disaster, including broadcast and print media.
In this section of the book, it looks at how the media on the time of Hillsborough represented the disaster, which helped as a researcher's could be seen to be very reliable.

source evaluation

Source Evaluation	What is the source? (Website, book, TV documentary etc.)	What have I learned from it?	Issues with reliability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_PA7YlJAHY	BBC Documentary on TV	I have learned about how the families of the time dealt with this tragedy, the emotions they went through, how they coped, who they were told was to blame in the wake of the disaster.	Issues with reliability are that the accounts of which were used in the documentary are from the bereaved families and witness testimonies from the day, the issue with this could be that they may give a biased story of events as they were the ones involved directly. However on the counter to   this it could give quite a fair judgement of what happened on that day because they would be able to go into great depths.
The Sun’s, infamous ‘The truth’ headline	Newspaper article/headline	From this newspaper headline I have learned of the huge impact that the media had on how people saw the tragedy, especially from Rupert Murdoch’s ‘The Sun’, I have learnt that the media has a huge impact on how people think and how the media can change the way people think about a situation.	The issues with the reliability in this sense is how reliable the content of the newspaper is. We can’t wholly trust this headline/ article due to how they obtained the information and how it was proven to be false in the future also, I used this information to show the comparison between how the media represented the Hillsborough tragedy at the time and the consequences   of this from 1989.
The Sun’s ‘The Real Truth’	Newspaper article/headline	As this was posted 23 years after ‘The Truth’ headline, I gathered that the media can gain a huge influence on the people, especially one of the biggest tabloid newspapers in the United Kingdom at the time	Here you could agree that there is very low reliability due tot he sources of the headline. These sources were falsely made up by Sheffield police officers, and this was published to a huge audience with false information.
https://www.liverpoolfc.com/hillsborough/contact	Website for Hillsborough support group	From this source, I discovered the names/ages of all the supporters who tragically lost their lives. The website gives background knowledge of the support group, including how the group started and who the chairman of the comittee is, Margaret Aspinall.	This source has no issues with reliability as it is written by the founder of the committee, a parent of one of the sadly young boy James who passed away.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/hillsborough-shameless-smears-lies-cover-11245354	Website article by the Liverpool Echo	From this source, I first hand read the lies, and corruption that The Sun and the South Yorkshire Police had done to cover up and force a false misrepresentation of the Liverpool fans.	The issues with reliability is that there is a possibility of a potential bias as the article is coming from the supposed accused Liverpool fans, side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQrl5ivhLYU Andy Burnham	Speech in front of the houses of commons by Andy Burnham, in front of a vast group of MP's	Andy Burnham stands in front of the Houses Of Commons with an emphatic and emotive speech. I learnt about how the ongoing case took 27 plus years to come to a verdict, even though they had all the details in front of them from the very beginning of the investigations.	Here again you could argue that the reliability is compromised as you are only hearing from on side of the tragedy and only hearing one side of what happened in the day.
Lord Justice Taylor’s Report http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough/history/taylor.shtm	The official Lord Justice Taylor's Interim Report	What I have learnt from this report is that the regulations what have been devised after this disaster will change the footballing world forever, and as heart-breaking the day on 15th April 1989, it still brings good to the football world.	High reliability as the report was made by a member of Law.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjfxugkQ2qQ	ITV news broadcast from the day of the disaster	I have learnt how quickly the media are to act on a news story as this came just hours after the event unfolded at Hillsborough. Also from this news article I have learnt that the spread of fake news even without proof can be published on Britain’s biggest news broadcaster at the time.	Essentially low reliability as the content to which they are reporting has been proven to be false information.