A flagrant plug
Posted on Dec 28 2006 | Tagged as: Politics, Media, Religion
A very kind producer at the BBC has alerted me to a programme on Radio 4 tonight, Telling Muslim Stories. The beeb’s website says:
“This year it seemed that every time you switched on a news bulletin, there was story about Muslims.
“Journalists have been covering terrorism in Muslim communities for some time, but in 2006 they took on wider aspects of Muslim culture itself - from the way some Muslim women dress to the protests over the Danish cartoons.
“But has all this coverage turned Muslims off the mainstream media? And does it matter if it has?
“In Analysis this week Charlie Beckett, Director of the Polis journalism think tank at LSE, asks why this has happened and explores the wider questions raised about the political and moral state of British journalism.”
They’ve got a pretty stellar ensemble: al-Jazeera and ex-BBC Rageh Omar, Channel Four News’s Samira Ahmed, Times deputy editor Ben Preston and New Statesman political editor Martin Bright among them. And Madeleine Bunting.
It sounds like an interesting listen.
(Though I did have to chuckle at the BBC website’s article, which says “Telling Muslim Stories, was broadcast on Thursday, 28 December, 2006 at 20:30 BST.” - no wonder the licence fee’s so high if they’ve been inventing time travel.)
