The Lobby Group » The Media http://www.lobbygroup.org - to affect public sector decisions in the UK. Mon, 03 May 2010 06:27:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Giving anarchy a bad name http://www.lobbygroup.org/2009/03/29/giving-anarchy-a-bad-name/ http://www.lobbygroup.org/2009/03/29/giving-anarchy-a-bad-name/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:47:00 +0000 johnbray http://www.nutterwatch.com/2009/03/29/giving-anarchy-a-bad-name/
Media coverage for the upcoming G20 protests in London – especially for “Financial Fools Day” seems intent on branding anarchists as the bad guys – but how much are they in control? On the one hand is the suggestion that they are are a bunch of deadbeat layabouts. And yet it’s proposed that they are are so well organised that a handful of them can control tens of thousands – that rioting will ensue and the protests will be a dangerous place to be.

How much is scaremongering to stop people joining in what might simply be a nice day out and a picnic lunch?

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All the comments and contributors have disappeared this morning from the BBC blogs! A clean slate for everyone? Or is it just me that’s not allowed to see them any more?

]]> http://www.lobbygroup.org/2009/03/19/whats-happened-to-the-bbc-blogs/feed/ 16 Publish and be damned http://www.lobbygroup.org/2009/03/09/publish-and-be-damned/ http://www.lobbygroup.org/2009/03/09/publish-and-be-damned/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:31:00 +0000 Jericoa http://www.nutterwatch.com/2009/03/09/publish-and-be-damned/ At the request of Rahere I have taken his concern as stated on his blog and posted it on RPs blog at 21.30 pm todat as below.

lets see if it gets through.

Never mind the Lloyds board

WILL ROBERT PESTON RESIGN?

or at least expalain himsels following the revelations by BBC Radio 5 live?

Article 6 of the BBC’s Royal Charter states:
6. The independence of the BBC
(1) The BBC shall be independent in all matters concerning the content of its output, the times and manner in which this is supplied, and in the management of its affairs.(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to any provision made by or under this Charter or any Framework Agreement or otherwise by law.

Robert Peston is a member of the ‘Common Purpose’ organisation as reported by Ruth Alexander on the Jonathan Maitland show on BBC 5 live.

As its rather curious choice of name seems to court, controversy never seems to be far away from this organisation.

Dont take my word for it read the article published on the net (follow the clues above I dont know how to post links) and make your own judgement.

Dear moderators, this post can not possibly break the rules, it is on topic (see the opening sentence) and merely quotes the BBC’s own policy and the BBC’s own journalists.
As a test I have copied it elsewhere also.

Is there a ‘common purpose’ in Roberts continual stream of amazing scoops?

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To all of you who still follow the BBC blog:

Look at this and spread it all over the Beeb’s blogs.

Rahere

]]> http://www.lobbygroup.org/2009/03/07/bbc-moderation/feed/ 13 My issues with the media http://www.lobbygroup.org/2009/02/13/issues-media/ http://www.lobbygroup.org/2009/02/13/issues-media/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:01:00 +0000 goldtop http://www.nutterwatch.com/?p=27 “In a society which finds spoon fed porn on freeview TV along with a 24 hour shopping channel and quiz call and casino TV and routine stylised violence acceptable it (the real world) does not shock or motivate. The REAL world can not compete for our attention amidst all the distractions which are very appealing to our ‘base level powerful animal instincts’ which are a part of us (and the reason why we are in this mess). The trouble is while we are all distracted by all this BS in our lives the real world is doing what it always does”

That is a quote from a post elsewhere in these parts and I agree with the sentiment wholeheartedly. The staggering amount of media devoted to vapid, vacuous and inconsequential rubbish is blinding people to the real issues in their lives.

Is this really what people want and are interested in. Really? Or is it the fact that this kind of thing has reached such a level of critical mass that people are just steamrollered into submission.

Are people now reaching out from their homes to bind themselves together not as communities or as a society as a whole to express any indignation and anger at their situation but to merely ‘text their vote’? Why can’t that inclusive desire be harnessed to influence something that actually MAKES A DIFFERENCE?

I do not care about celebrity lifestyles or Paris’s New British Buddy or the quest for the new UK supermodel and yes, I can exercise my right to change the channel or not buy certain magazines but I worry about the state of a culture that seems to hold these kind of issues in high esteem and the sedative effect of this kind of saturation. Is this rubbish really What People Want?

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