[cma-l] A role for community media?

[Roger]

Just to add to the discussions about a defining role and collaboration for 
community stations.



In a programme this Monday on Forest of Dean Radio,  a live interview  from 
Jerusalem with an Oxfam humanitarian spokesman and someone local, who had 
attended the demonstration in London last Saturday, explored the gaps 
between what has been reported or omitted by BBC and national media and 
other views of the Middle East Issue reality.



Only today, Wednesday for the first time, after a loss of over 500 lives, 
has any UK Politician (Nick Clegg) spoken out against the Israeli State, the 
lack of access to media for others to comment and debate is here as much as 
it is in other places.


We don't need to take sides but we can offer airtime to inform.


Do we not have a responsibility to make issues relevant and and accessible 
to our audiences and build up our differing approachs to enable better and 
more honest awareness?


Even by asking these questions, engaging within our communities, do we not 
broaden more understanding of how democracy so often fails us.


Roger Drury

SOUNDWORK