×
The Scottish broadcast media: BBC and STV should ‘up their game’ on Scottish referendum coverage
Nancy S.
started this petition to
The Scottish broadcast media
This petition calls on the broadcast media in Scotland to use more creative, participatory and exciting approaches and formats in their coverage of the issues, debates and possibilities generated by the forthcoming independence referendum and to move away from negative and biased news reporting.
To date, the issues have been presented in a polarised way, often in the form of slanging matches between politicians, generating more heat than light and turning people off. ‘Scary’ headlines, often emanating from the No campaign, have taken centre stage in news reports whilst meaningful, more dialogical and exploratory programming is largely absent.
As political commentator Gerry Hassan has pointed out, the tradition of ‘mediated access programmes’ where “members of the public played an active role in setting the mood and sometimes the agenda", such as Scottish 500 and Scottish Women, seems to have been discarded in favour of a gladiatorial battleground approach with politics seen as the business of politicians rather than of everybody.
The referendum offers an ideal context for such programmes and, in the last 200 days before the vote, the BBC and STV must rise to the challenge.
For more information and comment on this issue, please see:
Gerry Hassan in Scottish Review: The broadcasters are failing Scotland in this historic year
http://www.scottishreview.net/GerryHassan148.shtml
G.A. Ponsonby Newsnet Scotland: Will the real No campaign please stand up
http://newsnetscotland.com/index.php/scottish-opinion/8826-will-the-real-no-campaign-please-stand-up
John Robertson in Open Democracy: BBC bias and the Scots referendum - new report
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/john-robertson/bbc-bias-and-scots-referendum-new-report
Derek Bateman Broadcaster: Radio Silence
http://derekbateman1.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/radio-silence/
Derek Bateman Broadcaster: Breaking News...BBC threatens academic
http://derekbateman1.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/breaking-newsbbc-threatens-academic/
To date, the issues have been presented in a polarised way, often in the form of slanging matches between politicians, generating more heat than light and turning people off. ‘Scary’ headlines, often emanating from the No campaign, have taken centre stage in news reports whilst meaningful, more dialogical and exploratory programming is largely absent.
As political commentator Gerry Hassan has pointed out, the tradition of ‘mediated access programmes’ where “members of the public played an active role in setting the mood and sometimes the agenda", such as Scottish 500 and Scottish Women, seems to have been discarded in favour of a gladiatorial battleground approach with politics seen as the business of politicians rather than of everybody.
The referendum offers an ideal context for such programmes and, in the last 200 days before the vote, the BBC and STV must rise to the challenge.
For more information and comment on this issue, please see:
Gerry Hassan in Scottish Review: The broadcasters are failing Scotland in this historic year
http://www.scottishreview.net/GerryHassan148.shtml
G.A. Ponsonby Newsnet Scotland: Will the real No campaign please stand up
http://newsnetscotland.com/index.php/scottish-opinion/8826-will-the-real-no-campaign-please-stand-up
John Robertson in Open Democracy: BBC bias and the Scots referendum - new report
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/john-robertson/bbc-bias-and-scots-referendum-new-report
Derek Bateman Broadcaster: Radio Silence
http://derekbateman1.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/radio-silence/
Derek Bateman Broadcaster: Breaking News...BBC threatens academic
http://derekbateman1.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/breaking-newsbbc-threatens-academic/
Posted
(Updated )
Report this as inappropriate
There was an error when submitting your files and/or report.