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<DIV><SPAN class=475023222-31032004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=475023222-31032004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>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: <A
href="mailto:richard.sambrook@bbc.co.uk">richard.sambrook@bbc.co.uk</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=475023222-31032004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff>Keep posting everyone.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=475023222-31032004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff>Mark</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
media-watch-bounces@lists.stir.ac.uk
[mailto:media-watch-bounces@lists.stir.ac.uk]<B>On Behalf Of </B>PAUL
DROWN<BR><B>Sent:</B> 31 March 2004 21:13<BR><B>To:</B>
Brotherhoods@stevenston4.fsnet.co.uk;
media-watch@lists.stir.ac.uk<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Media-watch] (no
subject)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" size=3></FONT><STRONG>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?</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>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.</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>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.</STRONG><BR><BR></P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>From: "YvonneMarshall"
<Brotherhoods@stevenston4.fsnet.co.uk>
<DIV></DIV>>To: <media-watch@lists.stir.ac.uk>
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: [Media-watch] (no subject)
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:32:25 +0100
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Dear List-Members,
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>This is a personal rant, no links attached.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>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.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>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 ?
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Hello ?
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>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.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>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.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>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 ?
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>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 ?
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>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 ?
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>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 ???
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>What DO you think ?
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>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.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Thanks for your attention, and best regards,
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Ian Brotherhood
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>
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