www.handinhandforasia.org.uk is the charity my Sarah works for - flail on over to the site and check it out.
Anyhow - the Beeb are the only people who keep the hideous situation in Burma on the agenda. The consistently run articles on their site, carry reports on the radio and packages on the news when there are developments. The most recent clip from the ten o'clock news in on the Hand in Hand site at reasonable resolution, but I thought I'd post it here in the transcode I use on my 'phone.
In the same way that we all know the electronic media is inherently more trustworthy than print media I think the Beeb is inherently more trustworthy than commercial news outlets - definitely ones owned by Fox/Sky/Murdoch.
The WeMedia conference had a lot about this.
There are numerous examples of democracy activists saying how important the BBC is, here is a bit from Hansard in 1996, the quote is by Robin Cook;
Anyhow - the Beeb are the only people who keep the hideous situation in Burma on the agenda. The consistently run articles on their site, carry reports on the radio and packages on the news when there are developments. The most recent clip from the ten o'clock news in on the Hand in Hand site at reasonable resolution, but I thought I'd post it here in the transcode I use on my 'phone.
In the same way that we all know the electronic media is inherently more trustworthy than print media I think the Beeb is inherently more trustworthy than commercial news outlets - definitely ones owned by Fox/Sky/Murdoch.
The WeMedia conference had a lot about this.
There are numerous examples of democracy activists saying how important the BBC is, here is a bit from Hansard in 1996, the quote is by Robin Cook;
President Mandela said of his years in prison: "what we really wanted was the BBC World Service".
Would not the week of President Mandela's state visit be a good time to tell John Birt to drop the proposals that threaten the distinctive ethos of the BBC World Service that has given comfort to supporters of democracy around the world and brought respect for Britain from the world?
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