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Rating 8

I agree with Jones because many of the shows that the public are offered in relation to working class people reflect them in a highly negative light whether it's in 'reality' shows or ficticious dramas. It's almost as if there is no choice but to conform to the stereotypical assumptions of these programs as the evidence is right infront of us. However, it is important to note that this is infact not the case all working class people and it is important that everyone recogines that and how much of a generalisation these programs are.

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Rating: 9

I think this lecture was very interesting as it showed how TV  can affect people's views of working class by presenting only extreme cases of poverty, anti-social behaviour, teen pregnancy etc. The idea that TV demonises the w/c people for the purpose of entertainment of the middle and upper class is very interesting. It is true that w/c have no power at all to decide how they are being represented in the media and shows like Jeremy Kyle or Shameless do not reflect the reality. Majority of people on benefits are in fact employed. The popularity of the phrase "just get a job" shows how misunderstood the poverty in the UK is. I think media should start representing the reality of working class in unbiased way, giving the airing time to "the invisible working poor"

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Working class individu s are arertrayed in media

as individualsddd the bottom of society t hths imp minded

, dependant on thwee lfare system , are employment innactive

and engage in drug and alcohol abuse . although this may be true

for some indiviuals its unfair to make assumptions about a whole

social class  because of this as they are many working class individuals

who dont fit this sterotype

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I agree with many points Jones speaks about.

In particular, he says the Working class do not have the power to influence how they are portrayed on television. This is true, because of their status they are always  looked down at by other classes, and in a way have no choice but to sell their life stories to these programmes in return for money.

For example people who go on Jeremy Kyle.

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I completely agree, there is a stigma that goes with anyone who is working class, especially people on benefits.

People believe that these over the top stereotypes are real depictions of the working class, and that the people who are on Jeremy Kyle are what the majority are like, when in fact they are a tiny minority. Obviously there are people who 'scrounge' and 'sponge' off the government but, again, thats a minority.

The fact that the people on benefits were grouped together with shoplifters and pick-pocketers is disgusting. At the moment, there are no true-to-form representations of the working class, nothing that really speaks about the struggle and the hardship of being someone in that situation.

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Jones is right in saying that TV producers take the most extreme examples of working-class stereotypes, simply because it makes 'good television'. This country loves to blame one particular area of society for all our problems, and in this case it is the working-class, who make up most of the demographic. 70% of TV producers believed Little Britain was an accurate portyal of the working class. Most of these producers happen to be middle class.

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I agree with jones because it is true that the Working class are just seen as people on benefits and not doing anything with their lives and those who do work, who are still classed as the working class are never shown on tv programmes. A programme showing the lives of middle class people would be boring where as the working class families are seen as entertaining and people look down on them as assume all working class are the same.

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Rating 9/8

I think T.V programmes such as the Jeremy Kyle show, Skint, and My shop lifting addiction and me have successfully convinced the general public of Britain that "Chavs" are an accurate representation of the Working class population. These programmes only show extreme cases of working class families in order to allow viewers of these programmes to ridicule and come to a conclusion that anyone who is working class is Anti social has multiple children by multiple partners and is living off the expense of the tax payer.

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Rating 9

I agree with Jones because programmes

like 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' and 'Skint' degrade

the working class and these are the only shows

which represent the working class. Jones also asks

a question which was: why aren't there many programmes

that represent other members of the public that actually

work? This is true as not all the working class in England rely

on benefits and selling drugs to get money like those of the

people in 'Skint'.

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Rating: 10

I very strongly agree with Jones because

over the years the perception of the working

class has been getting worse and worse as the

result of comical dramas by the BBC or ITV. Most

dramas are written and produced by the middle

class which think it's alright just because they

hear a few laughs coming from the "jokes". Other

classes are now treating character from the TV shows

as if they were real and generalizing it to the whole

public, associating "working" class with lazy, druggie, young

mothers and troublemakers and I know from personal

experience that it's not true, my family is working class

and we don't all expect the benefits to fall from the sky and

my parents do not sit around the house all day doing nothing

as they are both very hard working individuals, and it's only

to the pure fact that we are working class that makes us lack

culture or knowledge. Furthermore, this soap operas

forget to mention the fact that lots of people are looking

desperately for jobs, and I am an example of that, that it took

me a year and a few months to finally find something that

would give some money. Lastly, I also agree with Jones as

chasing high rates is now more important to these soap operas

than creating social truth and more and more middle class

people are looking down on the working class and it's almost

as if they think working class people are burden to society

as everyone is counting on benefits to get by and forget

that we also contribute to paying taxes and so on.

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it does degrade the working class however there is no other way to go around it as it is the truth of what is going on in britain today..

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its degrates the working class

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Rating: 9

I agree  with Jones because ...

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totally shameless: how tv portrays the working class

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Totally Shameless: How TV Portrays the Working Class, Royal Television Society Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture - BBC Four

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Owen Jones argues against what he sees as TV programming denigrating the working class.

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1. Watch the lecture by Owen Jones

2. Double-click on the wall and write your name.

3. Give a rating out of 10 according to how strongly you agree with Jones (10 = very strongly, 1 = totally disagree)

4. Explain your rating in at least 2 sentences