These challenge views. As one of the articles is one of the Mods who were there who in fact says 'I saw one window get broken and a single deckchair' this shows a difference to the newspapers saying there was 90 arrests. Freeman makes the 'war' sound like it was nothing violent and no way near as bad as it were presented in the newspaper. He only went out of curiosity not because he wanted to cause trouble. One of the pictures in the magazine are of the Mod group walking along the pier not causing trouble and shouting which shows that there wasn't just constant riots.
The newspaper's are much less reliable than the magazines due to the fact they were there to over exaggerate what happened. However the articles are only what one person thought about what happened others may have gone down to cause trouble. As well as the fact Freeman may have wanted to defend the Mods and what happened and not make him look bad. However after 50 years he may have forgotten what happened or how he felt about it, and why he went down. The pictures found in the magazines would be their to counteract the pictures in the newspaper to show it wasn't all riots. There wouldn't be on true view as it the newspaper would try to show the teenagers to look bad and the magazine would try to make the teenagers look more or less harmless.
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