“Is Logan fairly represented in the media, or does the media disadvantage people of the community through prejudice and reinforced stereotypes?”

The Members of Logan are divided on the issue of Logan

City

’s

representation

in the media through prejudice and reinforced stereotypes. The

City

of Logan is located between Queensland’s capital

city

of Brisbane, and the diverse localities; Gold Coast, Redlands, Ipswich and the Scenic Rim. Logan has a population of 334,358 people, comprising 217 nationalities and cultures, with approximately 50% of residents aged 30 or younger (Logan

city

Council, 2019).

However

, Logan

City

was represented as a lack of security location with a high profile of violent crimes (G. Zappia, 2014). The

City

's

representation

also

portrayed as "Brazen youth gangs terrorising Brisbane” through NewsComAu website

article

in 2018, and was ranked as Brisbane’s top suburbs for

car

and home theft insurance claims published by M. Dennien in 2020. Yet, the members of Logan have reputations of shit-faced and intergenerational welfare dependency (N. Brown, 2020). As media outlets

such

as Ahuri, NewsComAu, Brisbane Times, and The Chronicle have represented the negative images and perceptions of the Logan

community

. Many media outlets have unfairly represented the

city

and had disadvantaged members of Logan based on unreliable and inaccurate sources and certain people. The media had disadvantaged people of the Logan

community

as many media outlets tend to focus on a particular group of people. In 2014 the ‘Ahuri’ media outlet published an

article

title ‘Addressing concentrations of disadvantage Logan Central/Logan

City

case study report’ stated, “But most acknowledged that perceptions of

community

safety in the area are low, and

this

is supported by a recent council survey, Logan Listens (Iris Research 2013), which reports that fear of crime is a primary concern…”. The report shows facts since it was a survey, but it was acknowledged by most participants who interviewed in the survey.

This

indicates that the media primarily focused on a certain group of people and put the

city

as a disadvantage. The reason is that the claim did not allow the

city

to be correctly represented because it did not fairly portray a true

representation

of Logan. The media has only described and reinforced on the negative Logan’s perception of

community

safety and crimes but other positive perception. In 2018 an

article

titled ‘Brazen youth gangs terrorising Brisbane’ published in ‘NewsComAu’ media website contains a picture of young people displayed money on the floor in letters ‘4114*’ which expressed Logan area postcode. It demonstrates that the media mainly focused on a specific group of people and had disadvantaged the members of Logan. Reason being, the title was unfairly represented Logan’s image and

further

created new stereotypes of the members. It conveyed and only allowed the audiences to picture and prejudge young people of the

community

as gangsters who destroyed the Brisbane

City

and caused problems for others.

Therefore

, many media outlets had disadvantaged the Logan

community

by unfairly represented the

city

centred on certain people.

However

, the media

also

had disadvantaged members of Logan by represented the

city

with unreliable and inaccurate

information

.

Additionally

, the media had disadvantaged people of Logan

city

as many media platforms provided an unreliable and inaccurate report about the

city

. On the 21st of January 2020, Logan was represented through the media platform named ‘Brisbane Times’ as a

second most

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insurance claims of “22.67%” in Queensland under the

article

title ‘Brisbane’s top suburbs for

car

and home theft claims’. The percentage,

however

, was ranked by the number of claims in each region, which was not calculated as a percentage of claims to the total number of

car

and house in each region has.

For example

, the number Logan

City

claimed for

car

and home insurance was 1,243 cases but has a population of 334,358 in 2019. Whereas, Ipswich claimed 7.28% and has a population of 219,890 in the same year.

This

indicates the media had used unreliable and inaccurate

information

which put the Logan

city

as a disadvantage. Reason being, it did not represent the

city

correctly because it did not fairly portray a true

representation

of Logan. The given data was directly converted into percentages for ranking, but it was used to illustrate viewers that the

city

was one in five most theft criminal offence occurred in Queensland. The faulty

information

was

then

reinforced on stereotypes of lacks of security

community

with the high profile of crimes image. In an

article

titled ‘Australia’s ‘worst’ towns revealed’ published in January 2020 by N. Brown expressed that the Logan’ common hobbies were known for “sh*t-faced” and “intergenerational welfare dependency” wrote in a review of the

city

. It shows that the media provided an unreliable and inaccurate source of a claim and

thus

disadvantaged members of Logan. Considering, it did not allow the

city

to be correctly portrayed because it unfairly represented the

city

with the inappropriate source –personal opinion. The media had prejudiced people of the

community

and had reinforced stereotypes that Logan’s generations to generations were dependent upon Government support for their life-wellbeing and that the members of Logan are always on drugs and under the influence of alcohol as their face is shown.

Therefore

, many media platforms had disadvantaged people of the

community

, showing the issue member of Logan were faced by unfairly represented Logan

City

basis unreliable and inaccurate sources. Generally, for many years, the members of Logan

City

have been dealing with negative representations represented no the media as it did not allow the

city

to be correctly represented but unfairly represented the

city

. Many media had disadvantaged people of the

community

through prejudice and reinforced stereotypes based on certain people and faulty

information

. Some claim,

however

, shows that the

community

worked hard on the reinventing the Logan

City

over the

last

decade to become a proud and successful suburb reflected in the media.