CTVT-Newsletter
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unity TV Trust
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October 2002
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... THIS ISSUE considers Community and Media
as partners in social and individual (re)generation ...
... and warmly welcomes likeminded readers in UK, Ireland,
Lithuania, Palestine, Nepal, Indonesia, New Zealand, Brazil,
Argentina, Peru and America.
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Civil Society Fundamentals
Freedom of and access to information and communication is a
fundamental human right.
(UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
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CTVT announces its Negative
News Report
... and did you know that the BBCi 360 website has a truly
amazing free offer ? Read on for more of that. And if you too find
the news too much these days, there's a simple questionnaire to
help CTVT compile its Negative News Report ...
&
... are you aware of the Community Channel ? If not, you should be.
... then there's the Media Workers Against War -
... US-based SojoMail campaigns for Peace despite the clamour for war
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... there's a plea from the Ukraine
Look out for web addresses & contact details
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For The Record
Current CTVT Activities
Lambeth, London - St. Martin's Estate: consultancy, workshops,
video
and a current initiative
to bring Estate and School of same name
together in creative collaboration
to the benefit of pupils and
residents alike ... the
School, High Trees CDT, Psion, CAN, Admiral
Voice & Data, Brixton
Online, Community Channel came together
recently in a meeting brokered
by Community TV Trust ... the meeting
succeeded in identifying
two small-scale ways of beginning the job
of marrying School and Estate,
teaching IT in family and nurturing
untutored video talent ...
more in the next edition
Southwark, London - negotiations with Borough Education Department
to launch a Borough-wide
scheme for multi-tiered local 'TV' service.
This project in particular
encapsulates CTVT's first dream that hatched
in 1997/8, to create a truly
local service integrating a number of
production pockets across
a given area ... this, if it launches, will show
Community and Media supported
by Education ... bravo to that
St. Ives, Cornwall - discussing with local Regeneration office
ways of
supporting social housing
initiatives and of engaging schools to
assist with IT provision
to the community.
Manchester - East Manchester EAZ linking with new client for
production
of further short videos
celebrating the large community scheme rolling
out successfully in a previously
run-down area of the City
Negative News Report - see Items 2 & 9
CTVT-Newsletter - occasional e-publication
Community Channel - CTVT is lobbying for discussion forum, a
monthly
programme, to link in with UK social entrepreneurs
BBCi's 360 website - discussions for possible collaboration
included an offer
from Auntie's new media
child of unlimited server capacity for housing
videos and films ... beat
a path to their door ... surely this munificence
cannot last
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ONE
CTVT NEGATIVE NEWS REPORT
community media - a provider of positivity
?
NEGATIVE NEWS REPORT
Across October and November CTVT is running a formal research
programme into negativity in broadcast news output.
BBC's Radio Five has been chosen for this monitoring exercise;
bulletins are being recorded
and logged;
they will be mapped for
language and story stranding;
simple statistics will be
collated and form the basis of the eventual Report;
the Report will be formally
submitted to
politicians, media owners and news editors,
academics, scientists, educationalists,
doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists.
One principal aim of the Report is to stimulate debate about issues
of
negativity in the mainstream media itself.
If you would like to add your name to this action, if you have a contribution
to make,
or if you would simply like to receive a copy of the eventual Report,
we would be
pleased to hear from you.
email: c.haydon@can-online.org.uk
www.communitytvtrust.org
CTVT warmly welcomes contributions to this report such as news, research
and surveys
on the psychological impact and consequences of negative conditioning,
plus information
on how media in other countries is responding to the apparently unbreakable
and
increasing cycles of lawlessness, violence, terrorism, and war.
An article written for BBCi's website 360 - a space dedicated to positive
news
and to the UN campaigns aimed at changing the great crises that afflict
Planet Earth
- led to this call to arms. CTVT aligns itself with the need to clean
up the mental and
media environment, especially the mainsream news environment. As Richard
Creasey
says in his introductory video to the "360" website, broadcast TV can
never spare much
time for a single issue, and obviously - more or less however pressing
they may be -
airtime is virtually non-existent for local matters.
Now technology has provided an amazing array of mechanical answers to
generating and
delivering local media, though the challenge of inspiring into
action those demotivated by poverty, into learning some IT and video production
skills, is quite another matter.
The creation of purposeful, characterful and above all positive content
by the Ordinary
Citizen remains a key issue and hope. Community generated media
can simply replace
the mainstream supply - that's the dream. That's the vision: Media
supporting
Community growth, Media being useful, wholesome, devoid of messages
of fear and
danger, purveying instead information for positive change directly
beneficial to the
Community.
Over the last couple of years I have been exploring ways in which Education
and
Community can work together. What has become clear is that Education
is an ideal
partner for generating Media in the community.
Discussions with two London boroughs are advancing well and the vision
of a local
multimedia service is taking shape: the shape is quite different in
the two cases,
borough-wide in one and connecting a school with a housing estate in
the other.
The borough-wide service would be grown in and around schools at the
micro level,
move up through community council zones, borough-wide areas, London-wide
networking (on the London Grid for Learning) and national networking
(via the
Community Channel).
In the UK the arrival of Community Channel offers real hope of
instigating a cultural
revolution with content being invited from community and individual
programme makers. Money is not around, predictably, but nonetheless we
all have an opportunity to be active contributors, to speak up, and to
facilitate others to do the same.
Please think about using the Community Channel to air your views, screen
films and
videos you have made or know about. Create partnerships for production.
Contact
Community TV Trust if you are uncertain about what move to make
first. We'd be
happy to talk.
E-learning initiatives around UK schools are showing how future
community media
practitioners are being trained up and UK Online Learning Centres are
becoming the
community centres (public houses ?) of the future.
Positive media is where we start: spread the word on a larger
scale and aim to divert
attention away from mainstream news media - a pretty dire place nowadays.
More and more of us are 'switching the news off'. What is it
about apparently intelligent,
well educated and well-meaning adults that produces the common journalistic
obsession
with words like 'kill' 'rape' 'crash' 'murder' 'victim' 'death' with
which news bulletins
are relentlessly permeated.
Time has come to campaign noisily and with focus against this relentless
daily
multimedia assault on our "mental environment". I believe this would
also serve
to create a happier and therefore more productive physical and business
environment,
plus impacting beneficially on society's health and individual positivity.
... Anyone for a "National No News Day" ? For truly, No News Is Good
News.
If you fancy a spot of volunteering in support
of CTVT's Negative News Report,
or want to submit your own comments, see the
item at the end of this edition
of CTVT-Newsletter. Make sure to download the
Questionnaire from the website.
Info in Item 9.
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TWO
UK MEDIA REGULATOR
HALLO UK - YOUR REGULATOR IS HERE
!!
... for TV, and your radio and
your telephone too.
Not only that but it's content
regulation
and market
rulings. And all from an academic
background. All in
one office, all from one man. A
tall order ?
The UK is the land of Public Service Broadcasting, a tradition that
now rests
in the hands of Roland Rat's dad. For overseas readers, that will not
mean
much - suffice it to say that the current Director General has proved
himself
to be a thoroughly commercial animal in his time. The rapid roll-out
of
digital BBC channels bears testimony to that. The BBC's commercial
friends out there in the market place are not overjoyed at these developments.
Reorganising the regulating mechanisms in the UK for media providers
amid fast-changing technologies is clearly quite a game.
The new super-regulator (chairman, in non-newspaper language) will run
Ofcom (Communications watchdog in UK covering telecommunications,
radio, TV) with a light touch. Five separate bodies existed prior to
Ofcom.
David Currie, Lord Currie of Marylebone, pledges that Ofcom will not
become a vehicle for meddling. "One of the crucial aspects for Ofcom
is to
ensure access on value-for-money terms to broadband," says Currie.
"It is
crucial to a number of developments in the communications sector."
Currie will appoint a Chief Executive and a Board of Directors to produce
this magical synthesis.
Reaction Sought
For other countries less deeply enmeshed in digital 'pipes', broadband
penetration arguments, online centres and bureaucratically top-heavy
regeneration schemes, reaction will be eagerly sought to UK attempts
to roll
out, facilitate and regulate a free market and still operate in the
new
post-9/11 paranoid world of 'necessary' control.
Will others perceive the famous 'Added Value' that is heralded by
broadband's promoters ? What is your view ?
Will President, sorry, Prime Minister Blair oversee the sale of major
media assets to non-UK interests ? He seems to look lovingly West
for much of the time, though inviting Bill Clinton to his Party
Conference did confuse his critics.
All in all, there is a need to remain watchful at the power end of UK
media mapping. If Government likes to read your emails, why is it
so keen on giving us broadband which will only encourage our instinct
for 'joined-up' thinking and coordinated activity ? ... Especially
if that
activity does not conform to focus group predictions ...
The mass provision of IT hardware to schools along with the pace of
convergence that brings television and computer ever closer together
gives one heart. In half a generation's time, every street - perhaps
every
small cluster of homes will have its own video maestro and local web
radio station.
The Community TV Trust pledges to lend its energies to enabling
people to acquire those IT skills, awaken that creativity and discover
their voice. Anything that helps liberate the unthinking from the
clutches of mainstream media and their own passivity.
Meantime we watch to see if the watchdog develops teeth or whether
President Blair (sorry, PM) takes his Media&Communications canine
to the vet to pull them and/or to fit a muzzle.
Currie's CV
1971: Joins stockbrokers Hoare Govett after PhD in economics.
1972: Moves to consultancy Economic Models, where colleagues include
future Treasury permanent secretary Terry Burns. Then teaches economics
at London University's Queen Mary College.
1988: Switches to London Business School as professor of economics,
later
adding administrative roles. Also becomes director of the school's
centre for
economic forecasting.
1992-95: Member of Treasury panel of independent forecasters ("wise
men") during Major government; but also has Labour links, becoming
an
informal adviser to John Smith and Gordon Brown, and plays key role
in
Charter 88.
1996: Made life peer.
2001: Becomes dean of City University Business School.
2002: Appointed Ofcom chairman.
Material taken from a Guardian article, Monday 29 July 2002:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,764704,00.html
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THREE
Iraq attack ?
Here is the first of a series of cuts from an
excellent weekly news
service, Sojomail, that examines political issues
from a faith and
ethical perspective. It is based in Washington
DC, USA.
B u i l d i n g a M o v e m e n t
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Help to invade Iraq before the U.S.
"The plan is to get there when the bombs start falling.
Actually, we'd like to get there before the bombs fall,
so they don't," says Claire Evans of Christian Peacemaker
Teams (CPT).
CPT, an organization committed to reducing violence by
getting in the way of aggression, is set to send its first
Generations for Peace delegation to Iraq in October.
CPT invites applicants 21 and older, and especially
encourages seniors to join the multi-generational effort,
which includes intensive training in nonviolence. While
in Iraq, the delegation will live among the Iraqi people,
protect civilians and the infrastructure necessary for their
survival, and serve as an alternative voice to the media.
The Generations for Peace effort is co-sponsored by
Voices in the Wilderness (VITW), a campaign to end U.S.
sanctions and a continuous delegation presence in
Iraq since 1996. Generations for Peace is one of several
affinity groups supported by VITW's Iraq Peace Team, a
well-connected movement with an well-designed Web site
currently soliciting applications for a September delegation.
For information on the Generations for Peace movement,
contact Christian Peacemaker Teams, (312) 455-1199,
cpt3@igc.org or visit http://www.prairienet.org/cpt.
For more about the Voices in the Wilderness Iraq Peace
Team campaign, visit http://www.iraqpeaceteam.org
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The above 'article' comes from S O J O M A I L, a regular e-publication
from America promoting values at the crossroads where spirituality,
politics, and culture meet.
website: http://www.sojo.net
For more information, e-mail: <info@sojo.net>
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... ah Brave New World !
"Liberty & Livelihood" - Take 1
400,000 people (Police and organisers agreed on this figure) marched
through London one Sunday in September to demonstrate about their
right to live as they please in UK countryside, whether this meant
farming or their right to public transport in rural areas or killing
foxes
for sport or whatever. It was apparently the biggest march London had
ever seen. Both prior to the day and reporting the event afterwards,
the
mainstream media did the organisers proud. Television and print ran
acres of coverage including plenty of front page stories and photographs.
Liberty and Life - Take 2
The following Saturday London was the stage for an anti-war
demonstration. This time estimates of numbers varied enormously:
the Police judged the turnout far lower than the organisers who claimed
upwards of 300,000 while the Police believed they saw half that number.
A substantial discrepancy.
Equally strange was the media coverage after the anti-war march:
tabloids were feeding frenziedly at the trough of gossip which the
previous
day had the Curried entrails of political philandering tossed in from
a
bygone age. The one broadsheet I read on a Sunday carried quite a good
report on the march on an inside page [page5]. Killing innocent Iraqi
people
and threatening to ignite the tinderbox that is the Middle East ...
mmm.
Let's see, has Kylie got her bra off ?
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MORSEL:
Ours is a society that has perfected its means
yet neglected its meaning. - Albert Einstein
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HIV MUPPET HIV MUPPET
Sojomail 2
C u l t u r e W a t c h
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Sesame Street: HIV-positive muppet in South Africa
The makers of the popular children's show "Sesame Street"
last week announced the debut of a new Muppet character -
an HIV-positive girl designed to help children learn how
to deal with AIDS.
The character, which will debut in September on the show's
South African version, will be used in an attempt to de-
stigmatize AIDS and promote discussion in a nation where
4.7 million people - one in nine - are infected with HIV.
"We want to show children that it's okay to touch [an HIV-
positive person], okay to hug, that a person can still be
a constructive part of the community," explained Joel
Schneider, vice president of New York-based Sesame Workshop,
which creates the show for many countries.
Republican congressional representatives reacted quickly
to the news, warning PBS that while the character is
suitable for South Africa, she is not welcome on U.S.
television.
Read more: "GOP targets HIV-positive Muppet"
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/variety/20020715/tv_variety/muppets_1
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B y t h e N u m b e r s
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HIV/AIDS cases worldwide
Adults and children living with HIV/AIDS around
the world as of 2001:
Sub-Saharan Africa
28,500,000
South and Southeast Asia
5,600,000
Latin America
1,500,000
Eastern Europe and Central Asia 1,000,000
East Asia and Pacific
1,000,000
North America
950,000
Western Europe
550,000
North Africa and Middle East
500,000
Caribbean
420,000
Australia and New Zealand
15,000
Source: UNAIDS
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SIX
COMMUNITY MEDIA COMMUNITY MEDIA
At a recent World Civil Society Forum held in Geneva the following
Concrete Actions were determined -
o Developing and linking databases of best practices of donor and Civil
Society projects.
o Encourage the development of an interactive knowledge sharing
platform on the WSIS
o UN system, governmental information should be made universally accessible
o Active provision of UN content in developing countries
o CS should use low-cost means (CD-ROMs, radio etc) to widely deliver
information
o CS must involve technical experts to protect against fraudulent monitoring
of their private information
o CS should promote a collaborative network of open source technology
tools
o Promote large scale translation
o Large scale provision of second hand computers
CTVT notes with interest the importance given to Open Source technology,
to second hand
computers, to low-cost delivery. Bye bye Bill Gates ? Hallo local unregulated
media
station ... but take nothing for granted, including your liberty to
pursue your UN chartered
Human Right to communicate.
* Thanks to David Wortley of Mass Mitec for the information and report.
<dwortley@massmitec.co.uk>
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MORSEL: It is in the silence
of the heart that God speaks.
-- Mother Teresa
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Sojomail 3
Q u o t e o f t h e W e
e k
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"Live your lives free from the tyranny of popular
culture, which would have you believe that wealth,
pleasure, power, status, and youthful looks will
bring you happiness and satisfaction. This is simply
not true."
-Stephen A. Privett, S.J., president
of the University of San Francisco, offers
advice to USF graduates in May.
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SEVEN
CAN TV ... CAN.TV ... CALLING SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
Community TV Trust has enjoyed a spate of media coverage for its
plans to harness
locally made films and videos for use on national Community Channel
(to be carried
by BBC Digital).
CANzine, Community Action Network's monthly
newsletter, ran a story;
New Start magazine followed suit;
Regeneration and Renewalinvited CTVT's
director andmanaging trustee to
contributeto their feature
writing ...
Triggering interest has been the idea of linking social entrepreneurs
into the
Community Channel.
Broadcast fever: Community Channel opens doors
wider
With new BBC digital channels, there is a new opportunity for community
TV
in the UK. From this autumn, the BBC will carry the Community Channel,
which previously only screened charity films but is now to include media
made in community.
Community TV Trust believes 'it is important to take up the offer
of airtime for our stories, promotional films, whatever. Look on your shelves
at old promos you invested in and dust them down ... and/or have something
made. You could find a local media student, a video enthusiast, or call
me at CTVT for advice.'
"CAN.TV" ?
CTVT plans to produce a monthly discussion forum for the Community
Channel, which will enable CAN members and fellow-travellers to air
their views and challenge obstacles to progress. Short promotional or inspirational
clips about specific projects could be included in these programmes.
Discussions with Jeremy Smith, Head of Production at Community Channel,
are under way and partners in this currently untried and penniless
zone of
media activity are being sought.
This could well be the start of "CAN.TV" which CTVT has always
envisaged as articulate, edgy, influential, relevant and on the button.
Chris Haydon of CTVT has offered to put in time coordinating the monthly
programme, but the stories, the projects, the people ... they must
come forward.
And the people to bring them forward are the social entrepreneurs themselves.
Whether you're not sure about what you've got, or you're raring to contribute,
contact:
Chris Haydon
Community TV Trust
tel: 020 7701 0878
m: 07970 970 715
email: c.haydon@can-online.org.uk
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Sojomail 4
F u n n y B u s i n e s s
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Buy stock or beer?
If you had bought $1,000 worth of Nortel stock one year
ago,
it would now be worth $49.
If you had bought $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank
all
the beer, then traded in the cans at a redemption center for
the nickle deposit, you would have $107.
Given the current conditions of the economy, my advice is
to drink beer and recycle.
[courtesy Sojomail]
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EIGHT
TAKING IT GLOBAL
The Global Youth Action Network is a global collaboration among youth
and
organizations to share information and link efforts to improve the
world.
It is an incubator of global partnerships setting numerous projects
in
motion such as Global Youth Service Day (gysd.net).
gyan@youthlink.org, USA +1-212-661-6111, South America +55 11-9137-6830
TakingITGlobal is an international youth organisation that inspires,
informs, involves and connects young people through a global online
community, supporting youth action globally and locally.
info@takingitglobal.org, +1-416-928-3362x4225
GYAN has merged its website, youthlink.org, with TakingITGlobal creating
one of the richest sites on the Internet for young leaders. Check
out:
www.takingitglobal.org
[Comment]:
I received this information via www.idealist.org
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By The By
... Everything I need to know about life,
I learned from Noah's Ark ...
One: Don't miss the boat.
Two: Remember that we are all in the same boat.
Three: Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.
Four: Stay fit. When you're 600 years old, someone may ask you to do
something really big.
Five: Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to
be
done.
Six: Build your future on high ground.
Seven: For safety's sake, travel in pairs.
Eight: Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with
the cheetahs.
Nine: When you're stressed, float a while.
Ten: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by
professionals.
Eleven: No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a
rainbow waiting.
NOW, wasn't that nice? Pass it along and make someone else smile,
too.
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PLEA
SOS - Help Children In Ukraine
Below is an article, passed on as received, with faltering English,
but the painful
and passionate message is loud and clear.
By everyone, whom the destiny former " of children of a street
" on
Ukraine is not indifferent!
The heaviest financial position!
The financial help from organizations and private persons for: of a
feed(meal) of children, clothes, training at school, payment of the
electric power and heating urgently is required.
The state us does not finance. The activity we conduct since 1995 only
at
the expense of the donations.
We guarantee to everyone offered the complete report on use of means.
Are ready to give any documents and information on our organization
and
our activity.
More in detail about us it is possible to read on: [ http://www.syntez.org
]www.syntez.org
Beforehand we thank you for the rendered attention and shown mercy
to
homeless children of Ukraine!!!
Yours faithfully
Thanks and remain God bless.
Valeriy Ivanov
The chairman of the Children's centre of rehabilitation
" our House ".
P.S. We ask intimate to excuse, if we have taken away in you time.
................................................
Dear colleagues,
"Syntez" Kharkiv Regional Charity Association which mission is give
comprehensive assistance to hapless children of Kharkiv region:
orphans, refugees, homelesses, children from especially needy many children
having families/"Syntez" Association has been functioning in the given
region
from 1995.
Within the framework of the operating program the " NASH DOM " (" our
home ") child-youth Centre of rehabilitation of children and
youthes who
were in extreme situations has been opened sinee 1997 (scheduled load
- 44
children from 4 to 18 yeas old). More than 900 children has been worked
out
during the time the Centre functions (given back to the families, given
to
new families, arranged for studying in schools of general education
and
other schools, arranged in boarding - schools and etc.)
Taking into account Ukraine's economic crisis and according to it the
increase of homeless children in Ukraine (according to the statistics
more
than 3 million children live outside in Ukraine and more than 23 thousand
in Kharkiv region), there is a necessity of development, expansion
and more
effective functioning of " NASH DOM " Child-youth Centre of rehabilitation
of children and youthes who were in extreme situation.
Issuing from the aforegoing "Syntez" Kharkiv Regional Charity Association
seeks Foreign partners for joint work for assistance giving to homeless
children of Kharkiv region who badly needs nourishment, clothes and
footwear, medical care, aducation, adoptive family and etc. (this is
not
the full list of first necessity, that cannot be satisfied even by
the state!!!).
"Syntez" Kharkiv Regional Charity Association is a non-commercial,
non-profitable, non-state charity organization, carrying out its activities
only for account of donations from natural and legal persons.
You can receive more detailed information about our activities visiting
our
Internet site:
[ http://www.syntez.org ]www.syntez.org
http: //[ http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/7607
]www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/7607 /
With respect and hope for cooperation:
Valery Ivanov
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MORSEL:
wise heart, seeing eye
"Laboratories and libraries,
halls and porch and arch
and learned lectures—
all shall be of no avail
if the wise heart
and the seeing eye
are absent."
Anthony de Mello, SJ
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NINE
CTVT's NEGATIVE NEWS REPORT
DATA GATHERING
One volunteer is looking at BBC 1 early evening national news bulletins;
we are also recording output from BBC's national news and sports channel
Radio Five Live, both the Breakfast programme (06.00-09.00) and the
early
evening Drive programme (16.00-19.00).
The relationship between bulletins and features, editorial balance
across the
stories featured, tone, emphasis - these are some of the ways in which
the
Negative News Report will tackle this large and important subject.
Information gathering will continue throughout October. In November,
background research will continue into the science and psychology of
negativity; the process of evaluation will begin with a view to drafting
and
finalising the Report by the third week of December.
CTVT will offer it to broadcasters and print media for Christmas, along
with
politicians, media owners, academics, scientists, doctors, psychologists
and
educationalists.
What therefore CTVT is looking for -
i Background research/reports
These would be scientific/psychological
studies conducted
into the effects on the mind (young
or old) of repeated
negative input and where possible
actual media research
data would be found. Help in this
area would be of great value
and will directly influence the
quality of the eventual Report.
ii Volunteer(s) to collect opinions/Vox Pops
Samples of comments on individual
reactions to negativity
in the news are sought, to complement
the main thrust of
the Report (being consideration
of actual broadcast programmes).
If you have some fire in your belly
for this subject, get in touch.
Let's make an impact.
Impact
.... negative
news report
A Questionnaire is available on the website with a few straightforward
questions for under-11s, for young people, and for adults.
CTVT web address:
www.communitytvtrust.org
Here are the Questions for Adults:
For Adults
1
If you listen to or watch the News, do you think
you benefit from doing so ?
2
Do you think News programmes are positive or
negative or neither ?
3
Are there enough positive and happy stories in the
News ? Or are these stories not important ?
4
If you have stopped or do not like listening to
or watching News programmes, why is that ?
5
If you have children, do you encourage them to
follow News programmes ? If yes, please say why.
If not, why not ?
6 Do
you think that News programmes are made
differently nowadays compared to when you
were still at school ?
7
Do you read a daily newspaper ? If so, which one(s) ?
If not, why not ?
CTVT would be very grateful for your support in gathering samples -
even sending in your own answers would be beneficial and keep a
geezer with a vision very happy. Please send Questionnaires back to
email: c.haydon@can-online.org.uk
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CTVT rettelsweN / Feedback
A number of warm and complimentary emails were received
following the distribution of the first CTVT-Newsletter.
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