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Shannon Matthews |
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The Future of Broadcasting in the Nations |
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Media Training |
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Comments on today's show |
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Shannon Matthews:
I think the difference in media treatment of missing Shannon Matthews vis a vis Madeleine McCann could also be down to the latter's parents having friends in the media. The idea that a missing child story might get coverage according to her and her family's "appeal" reminds me of the time -albeit a few years ago now- when I worked for the Met Police publicity side and saw how crime involving ethnic minorities was less "enthusiastically" pursued by the media
James Peacock
I cannot help regarding with irritation the comments made by the sort of people you had talking about the sort of people that live on estates like the Dewsbury Moor estate. Their self serving opinions are based on nothing more than their own sociopolitical views. How many of them have lived on such an estate? I grew up on one and my mother and brother live on those estates still. The level of feckless, benefit dependant, socially irresponsible behaviour exhibited by a significant minority - if not actually a small majority in some areas - is beyond the ability of the chattering classes to truly comprehend. There are so many who truly believe the world owes them support but that they should be free to act as they like because restrictions infringe their civil liberties and have no respect for the property of others, or the right to reasonably enjoy that property. They can be considered to live in a society where the moral fabric that makes an area a community is so badly torn it may be considered broken. Please, if you must invite people to comment on the "working classes" find someone who knows about them.
Simon Trott
I feel some journalists from right wing newspapers should go and live on a council estate like those covered in Dewsbury during the Shannon Matthews affair. It might make them realise what the real world is all about !!!Ian Payne, Walsall.
Broadcasting in the Nations:
The programme was wrong to imply that regional TV in the nations is the same for all smaller nations, for Scotland as for Wales and Northern Ireland. While STV does provide plurality with BBC Scotland as the nation's service it also does so as two regional TV services - for the north and central Scotland, the third Scottish area served by Border TV now merged with Tyne Tees. In fact rather than demonstrating that the greatest public demand for a new national TV service in Scotland the public demand most strongly identified by TNS System Three for the Scottish Broadcasting Commission was for a more localised TV service to provide new and current affairs for the civic regions and cities in Scotland. Plans are in hand supported by councils, production companies and local economic enterprise companies for local TV channels to be launched as a genuine new contribution to public service broadcasting starting with switchover in the South of Scotland in 2009. The Scottish Local TV Federation proposes these local services work together on forming a unified Scottish Network, but this would be far from in a subordinate or relationship - since that would overlook the longstanding historical demand for better local TV provision in the UK. We might ask, where does this leave STV contributing to news plurality BBC Scotland: as a Scotland wide service alternative to BBC Scotland - not as a half-Scottish half-local able to do neither well because of its lack of Scottish coverage and poor local scale.
Dr David Rushton |
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Steve Hewlett |
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Steve Hewlett is a Guardian Columnist and broadcasting consultant. He is visiting Professor of Journalism and Broadcast policy at Salford University and a fellow of the Royal Television Society.
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