[Media-watch] (no subject)

[Mark and Andrea]

I too appreciate Ian Brotherhood's rants - along with the Dean Rubbergloves
stuff on Medialens. Keep up the good work, Ian/Dean. I guess the problem
with posting is that people lead busy lives and simply don't have the time
to post all the time, or to do the research necessary to dig out interesting
articles.

By the way did anyone see the BBC news tonight at 10pm. One story stood out;
that of a rapist/murderer. A horrific story, as I'm all subscribers would
agree. What I found to be objectionable in the reporting was the continual
reference to the perpetrator's immigration status. Both headlines and story
referred repeatedly to the fact that the rapist was an illegal immigrant;
indeed the first headline gave prominence to this fact. Maybe I'm wrong, but
surely the news should have been that some sicko had raped and murdered a 12
year old girl, not that he was an illegal immigrant or that the government
had failed by letting him in. Of course this story was covered alongside the
current coverage of the Home Office/Romania story. The net result is a
feeding of the paranoia/moral panic about asylum issues. I have not written
to Richard Sambrook for some time, as he seems (post-Hutton) to have given
up replying to emails. However I will on this issue. For anyone else who is
interested in dropping Mr Sambrook a line, his email address is:
richard.sambrook at bbc.co.uk

Keep posting everyone.

Mark


  -----Original Message-----
  From: media-watch-bounces at lists.stir.ac.uk
[mailto:media-watch-bounces at lists.stir.ac.uk]On Behalf Of PAUL DROWN
  Sent: 31 March 2004 21:13
  To: Brotherhoods at stevenston4.fsnet.co.uk; media-watch at lists.stir.ac.uk
  Subject: RE: [Media-watch] (no subject)


  Who reads this stuff you ask? Well,people like me I suppose, & yes, I am
guilty of not posting anything.I always have the presumption that if I have
read something so will the people in internet land.Perhaps I am wrong.Why do
I read this stuff? Very good question, that.My life was a lot easier before
I took the hump with the way the world was shaping up, and hey, it's only
some arabs getting killed, isn't it?Why should I care?

  Well, care I do, & if I can scour these hallowed pages & suchlike to see
the truth, & pass it on to people who are intrested enough, so be it.Now,
when I see a statue being pulled down, or the picture of a 'suicide bomber',
who happens to have been 'conviniently' caught on camera, I know that the
real story will come out.18 months ago, I would have believed what the press
told me.

  So dont be disheartened, I am sure there are lots of punters out there
that are doing the same as me, you just arent getting the feedback to
realise it.



  >From: "YvonneMarshall" <Brotherhoods at stevenston4.fsnet.co.uk>
  >To: <media-watch at lists.stir.ac.uk>
  >Subject: [Media-watch] (no subject)
  >Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:32:25 +0100
  >
  >Dear List-Members,
  >
  >This is a personal rant, no links attached.
  >
  >Traffic at this address has diminished of late, and if it wasn't for the
contributions of D Miller and Julie-anne Davis then I'd have nothing -
precisely nothing - to rant about. The fact that submissions are still being
made to media-watch is, in itself, encouraging, but the paucity of comment
and reaction to developments by those who have subscribed to the list since
its inception is depressing.
  >
  >Who is it that takes the time to read this list, to respond to postings,
to stay up way-past their bedtimes when they could be doing so many other
things ? Who, in their right mind, would want to tap away at a keyboard when
other sensible beings are, if not asleep, partaking in on-line orgies and
quizzes ? What is the point of this ?
  >
  >Hello ?
  >
  >Yes, you. It must be you. You're reading this. If you are as half-witted
as me then you're trying, without really knowing why, to create a 'debate'
which does not happen elsewhere. You are perhaps sick and tired of watching
News-24 and the other 'non-stop' news channels which promise so much but
deliver so little. Maybe you're sick of being fed lies by people who are
employed, and work, in shifts, to deliver the scripts which are fed to them
by people who are, in turn, thoroughly sick of what they do but have no
'realistic' option.
  >
  >Do you have a mortgage ? Yes, so do I. Do you have children ? Yes, so do
I. The very same excuses are made by those who dutifully script and deliver
the often comically inane cobblers fed to us all as 'news'. If this isn't a
preoccupation of media-watch then it f***ing well should be. "I was only
doing what I was told..." Aye, right, sure thing, heard it...nae excuse at
all, at all.
  >
  >So, why do we do it  ? Why do we send each other bits and pieces of
'news' which don't appear on the telly or the radio ? What is the point ?
  >
  >What is it about this list that will make it last, make it relevant, make
it something worth recommending to friends etc etc ? I don't know. Do you ?
  >
  >Why is it that, even on an open forum like this, people are unable, or
unwilling, to state their own feelings about what's happening in media
rather than simply post links to the work of others ? Is this forum not a
legitimate arena for airing original, personal views ?
  >
  >If so, where are they ? My name is not Yvonne Marshall, as it appears in
your Inbox, but that's because I haven't changed the name since subscribing.
My name is Ian Brotherhood and I am a real person, and I have real beefs and
rants about what's going on, much of it media-related. What about everyone
else ? What are the personal beefs, what is the problem ? Why are you
writing to this thing, this forum, but not expressing yourself, not stating
openly what YOU think ???
  >
  >What DO you think ?
  >
  >Speak up, speak your 'truth', whatever it is. I know media-watch isn't a
chat-room, but it would be nice, invigorating, to hear the real voices
behind the 'posters' - the reason why you post whatever you do is perhaps -
nay probably - as important as the content of your references.
  >
  >Thanks for your attention, and best regards,
  >
  >Ian Brotherhood
  >
  >
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