[cma-l] Making Media Matter?

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From: "undercurrents alternative news" <paulo at undercurrents.org>
To: ian at transplan.uk.com

Roger Drury makes a good claim. Community media has to be about supporting
the community who are actively trying to engage people to create a better
world. Every mainstream media ignored the Occupy movement for weeks until
it became too big to ignore. Now it is a worldwide movement. If CR does
not report movements like this, then it will become as irrelevant as most
of the other commercial media. As Roger rightly states the Occupy movement
are already doing their own media and bypassing the broadcasters slants
and snides.

So I find Ian Hickling's views totally bizarre.It is the role of Community
media to air the voices which other radio and media channels are actively
ignoring.

Toeing a Government or corporate line is not going to win any favours with
your audiences either.

Report the unreported!

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> So are you proposing that we actively support people who are potentially
> breaking the law - and risk prosecution?
> Opposing Government policies isn't going to do a lot to get CR better
> central funding!
> One man's legitimate commercial revenue is another man's greed.
> In my experience it's generally the ones who don't have it - and aren't
> prepared to do anything about it - that like to cause trouble for the
> people who have worked hard all their lives to build up a successful
> business.
>
> ------------------------------------
> Ian Hickling
> Partner
> transplan UK
>
>
>
>> From: roger at coalway.f9.co.uk
>> To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
>> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:34:22 +0000
>> CC: MECCSA at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: [cma-l] Making Media matter
>>
>> >From distance I have been tuning in to the Occupy London live stream,
>> it is
>> a rich and varying mix of opinion, debate, singing, performance but they
>> need support, keeping it on air 14-16 hours a day
>>
>> So I am writng this to appeal to the Community media community isn;t
>> this
>> just the example of real broadcasting that we should be supporting?
>>
>> If you can get down there, contact them- if a couple of people a day
>> could
>> help with technical, media, content support.
>>
>> The cause is challenging greed isn't that the heart of community?
>>
>> Do what you can? What can CMA offer? MECCSA?
>>
>> www.livestream.com/occupylsx
>>
>> best to all
>>
>> Roger Drury
>> SOUNDWORK Community Projects