How different classes are represented within the media.

The media often shows different representations of classes, (e.g. upper, middle and lower) and they are shown in either a positive or negative way.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/27/upper-class-people-behave-selfishly

This article clearly represents upper class people in a negative way. We are able to tell this by the content of the article. For example it talks about how those in a higher social class are more likely to lie, cheat, and cut up other road users. This is said to be true as people have conducted research into unethical behaviour across the social classes. However, i think this is a very unfair representation from the media, as it ties everybody that is upper class with the same brush, and this is not necessarily the case. This is stereotyping the upper class as snobs that get away with everything etc, and this is how stereotypes are created. This goes for how people also tend to view lower class as violent and as people that rely solely on benefits from the government. What is also unfair is that, this research would have been conducted over a small amount upper class people, and just because those ones may have seen to be cutting people up, cheating or lying, everyone that is upper class is automatically assumed to be the same.