[cma-l] A role for community media?

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From: "undercurrents alternative news" <paulo at undercurrents.org>

Upon that note Roger..Undercurrents filmed a protest at the BBC last week
over their reporting of Gaza. Protesters super-glued themselves to glass
security gates inside BBC.They protested the lack of balanced reporting of
the Israeli bombings on Gaza.

My report can be viewed on:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vPh8v69a_MM&feature=channel_page

As you  rightly say the role of community media should be to fill in the
blanks left by the mainsteam media.

All the best
Paul O'Connor
-- 
Undercurrents
http://www.undercurrents.org/

> Just to add to the discussions about a defining role and collaboration for
> community stations.
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> 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.
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>
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> 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.
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> We don't need to take sides but we can offer airtime to inform.
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> 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?
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> Even by asking these questions, engaging within our communities, do we not
> broaden more understanding of how democracy so often fails us.
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>
> Roger Drury
>
> SOUNDWORK