BigTrancer
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I can't say for sure what the author/s really intended with articles like this. However, if it was a slow news day and all they wanted to do was stick it up the ravers and sell some newspapers, I'd say it worked a treat. If it was a moral standpoint the author/s took, and sought to present an 'expose' based on their idea that dealers are 'infesting' the clubs, well that probably worked too... in the two days after that paper came out, heaps of people who knew I went to nightclubs asked me 'are drug dealers really that obvious in the nightclubs??'. Of course, I replied that you'd have to be there actively looking for them and not enjoying time socialising...
I might be going out on a limb here, but I can't really think that the media actually attempt to 'accomplish' anything directly, ever, besides providing a historical record of the way things are/were. However, they are extraordinarily good at polarising public opinion; which in this case means bringing a somewhat hidden issue into full public scrutiny. In this way the author can attempt to achieve their goal (whatever that may be) indirectly, by presenting the issue in a way which pisses off a large enough proportion of the general public (of which a huge proportion are usually law-abiding, non-illicit-drug-using citizens)that something eventually does get done about the issue by proxy.
BigTrancer
