[cma-l] Climate Radio programmes

Sat Jan 31 14:27:55 GMT 2015

Quote:
".........the campaign to kick corporate influence out of our democracy and the need for civil disobedience......"
Sheer lunacy to attempt to broadcast that sort of thing!
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 23:40:19 +0000
From: eddie at kcr.fm
To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Climate Radio programmes available!

    I haven't discussed this yet with anyone else at the station, so
    this is purely my personal opinion.

    My initial concern when the original email came out were the words
    (amongst others):-

    > the campaign to kick corporate
      influence out of our democracy and the need for civil
            disobedience;

    However balanced the programme(s) may or may not be, I personally
    would not want to go near anything that looked at the need for civil
    disobedience.

    Yes, women would probably have had to wait far longer to get the
    vote etc without the sufragettes, but given the "joys" that we had
    in Scotland last year with excesses & sheer nastiness between
    the "Yes" & "No" referendum camps, trolls being investigated by
    the police, people being threatened verbally & apparently
    physically etc., etc., I just would not want to get involved with a
    "debate" like that.

    One hot head and you're in trouble (remember, the NofTW decided to
    name and shame (supposed) paedophiles. A drunk bunch in Plymouth (I
    think??) became a lynch mob which went to try and literally string
    up a (female) paediatrician.

    Yes, you could (should!) balance it with the down sides of civil
    disobedience but you only need one paper to (mis)report (part of)
    your broadcast and away you go (How many people actually heard
    Ross/Brand & Andrew Sachs? Very few. How many complained? Tens
    of thousands.)

    If you interview Greenpeace, FoE etc., you must include, or at least
    give the right of reply to, Shell, BP etc even if you personally
    think that they are the devil incarnate. Without actually fighting
    their corner for them, they might just want to point out that they
    are also working on renewables and that without fossil fuels the
    Industrial Revolution wouldn't have happened and we would still have
    a peasant farming economy based on horse & cart.......?? Indeed,
    we might not have Community Radio??!!

    I think that a Community Station getting involved with the way that
    that email read is just asking for trouble. We have tackled some
    fairly contentious issues up here but have always been extremely
    careful on balance.....

    Light blue touch paper...........? Not me on this one given what we
    know so far.

    Regards,

    Eddie Stuart

    On 30/01/15 19:05, David Duffy wrote:

    > Nick, as you know, I respect
      your enthusiasm but /all/ broadcasters,

      > not just community radio, are required to adhere to the

      > Communications Act 2003 and The Representation of the People
      Act.

      > These are enshrined in statute for our benefit and to ensure
      that

      > broadcasters exercise due impartiality. Otherwise, we could
      have

      > stations that support one political party over another using
      that as

      > a means to promote a highly partisan message. I give you Fox
      News'

      > ‘Fair and Balanced’.  Anyone who has watched Fox News
      understands the

      > irony in that positioning statement.

      > 

      > All I would recommend to community broadcasters is that they
      revisit

      > Section 6 of the Broadcasting Code

      >
<http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/broadcast/831190/section6.pdf>

      > and in particular 6.12 where the onus is clearly on the
      broadcaster -

      > '/Where a candidate is taking part in a programme on any
      matter,

      > after the election has been called, s/he must not be given
      the

      > opportunity to make constituency points, or electoral area
      points

      > about the constituency or electoral area in which s/he is
      standing,

      > when no other candidates will be given a similar
      opportunity/.’

      > 

      > It has been mentioned previously that Ofcom is a reactive
      rather than

      > proactive disciplinarian.  If there is one time during your
      5-year

      > licence that an unhappy listener is likely to complain to
      Ofcom it’s

      > during the run up to an election.  People get very worked up
      over

      > this kind of stuff!

      > 

      > David

      > 

      > /David Duffy is a Senior Partner with //- providing
      professional

      > consultancy and services to commercial and community
      broadcasters

      > worldwide./

      > 

      > M: 07817 990760 T: @theradiopeople

      > <http://www.twitter.com/theradiopeople> F:

      > facebook.com/theradiopeople

      > <https://www.facebook.com/theradiopeopleuk> L:

      > linkedin.com/in/davidgduffy
      <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/davidgduffy/> 

      > W: theradiopeople.co.uk
      <http://www.theradiopeople.co.uk/>

      > 

      > 

      > 

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