At different times, the focus of the media falls upon different groups depending upon the concerns and attitudes of people in society. As the media's role is to reflect the concerns of their audience. In different eras, the focus of the media has been on different crimes and different groups of people. During the 1960s, the media focused upon the activities of those in counter-cultural or sub-cultural movements as these groups were more likely to reject the mainstream norms and values of society. As a result, young people and recent migrants into the UK tended to be the focus of the media as altering the norms and values of society. This led to more reporting of youth crime and crimes committed by minority-ethnic people in the UK, a trend that has continued throughout the years since. In the 1970s, the focus of the media was firmly centred on the threat of terrorism as the conflict in Northern Ireland accelerated. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the media focused on the behaviour of young people, with a particular focus on the consumption of drugs and alcohol. Furthermore, high levels of unemployment led to increases in crime and the media focused on the behaviour of those that were unemployed as developing a criminal lifestyle. The War on Terror changed public attitudes once again, with media reports focusing on the threat of domestic terrorism, following the events of the London bombings on 7th July 2005 and also on issues relating to immigration. This reporting generated feelings of Islamophobia and resulted in the growth of anti-immigration movements in the UK. More recently the focus has been on knife crime in London and the public reaction to the COVID pandemic.