Friday 13 November 2015

Weekly Homework

The sun jumps the gun with claims with London spy sex "row"


 http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2015/nov/11/sun-london-spy-bbc-ofcom
London Spy: Sun exclusive shot down?

'Paper claims Ofcom is ‘investigating’ complaints about explicit sex scenes in the BBC drama – but the media watchdog says it hasn’t yet launched a probe'
From this short article explains that a BBC tv show has been showing very explicit sex scenes and been alot of complaints because of this. There were only 13 complaints because of this and yet there were 2.5million viewers, the article states that the reason of the complaints is because of the two men are having sex and it was because of the complaints that it had to into investigation because of this.

The Sun does quote the Evangelical Alliance, an organisation that issued a report in 2012 saying “We believe both habitual homoerotic sexual activity without repentance and public promotion of such activity are inconsistent with faithful church membership.”

From this article my opinion is that the people who did this were homophobes because if you look at the evidence there was nothing wrong with the show when they checked it. Out of small complaints i dont understand why they checked it if only 13 people complained when there was 2.5 million viewers and it would of been a problem if it was a million people but it wasn't just a act of sexuality not being accepted on media.

Why the BBC is worth saving?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/12/why-the-bbc-is-worth-saving

Vladimir Putin in a BBC and Yandex webcast: the corporation is an independent voice, in contrast to its Russian equivalent

This is an edited extract from a speech given by former BBC special correspondent Allan Little for the Hetherington Lecture at Stirling University

 'The corporation faces vested interests who want to see it dismantled, but its public service broadcasting is part of the bedrock of our civic life'

The article explains  that BBC is a good news sources, that it follows the job of what the audience wants. This articles strongly agrees that the BBC is a good way of broadcasting. People give the negative side as to the reason of not showing important broadcasting shows like British bake off or Doctor Who. However in the article still pushes the point that the BBC is part of history and was information from wars as it first aired in 1922.

1. 31 years at the BBC in news, current affairs and foreign reporting, covering events ranging from the Gulf war to the break-up of Yugoslavia. As sopecial correspondent, he reported on devolution and led the BBC’s coverage of the Scottish independence referendum.

2.  BBC’s critics argue that a public service broadcaster has no business doing things

3.  Before social media we had the revolution of 24-hour, real time, television news. Around the time of the second Gulf War, of 2003.

In my opinion i believe  that the BBC is what stands for information that people want. It gives the news and it gives entertainment. it educate informs and entertains as its three main rules. Because we are in a time of technology advancing we do not know hot to act yet. BBC is shown to be this amazing broadcast of information and ti is but it is critics who making it feel negative because of newspapers and how its going down but its not only BBC doing this.

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