Images of children in mass media are used to symbolise everything from hope for the future to fear of moral decay. This book explores visual and discursive images of children published in a monopoly daily newspaper over a 12 month period. The findings include a disparity in the degree of overt and vernacular criticism of children and that permitted for other minority population groups; and an over-representation of marginalised children in compromising news reports. The extensive use of children in promotional contexts was found to be partially obscured by the public service function...