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Saturday, October 19, 2013

BBC MEDIA ACTION, Transforming lives....


BBC MEDIA ACTION
Transforming lives through media around the world       (their words, not mine!)

BBC Media Action is funded by us, from our annual TV licence fee and through tax by direct grants of huge amounts of public money from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Unlucky for some! No 13.      See page 13 of this report, http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/pdf/syria.pdf

BBC MEDIA ACTION • COUNTRY CASE STUDY: SYRIA
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The BBC and Arij: Working in Syria, but not within the system
BBC Media Action  (formerly the BBC World Service Trust)

In 2004, BBC Media Action launched a three-year £1.5 million Arab Media Dialogue programme across seven Middle Eastern countries. (7 Middle Eastern Countries such as:  Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Syria...Libya?) 


In Syria, BBC Media Action conducted journalism skills, business and management training and mentoring for selected journalists, editors and managers, working in close partnership with both state and private media outlets. The private online newspaper, Syria News, was identified as a promising start up and, in 2006; its managers were trained on sustainable business models for online news.  Seven of its staff attended BBC-run workshops in training for trainers and mentoring skills before Syria News set up its own training operation for young graduates.  Many of those who took part in this programme still work in the media and have become respected media trainers, journalists and editors in their own right.  The programme highlighted the structural blockages that hold the profession back in Syria, while recognising the potential to work within such a restricted media system if that work is based on needs and has buy-in from senior staff and the support of the Government – in Egypt and Syria in particular.

In 2008, BBC Media Action launched its three-year project ‘Socially Responsible Media Platforms in the Arab World’ with funding from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.  Syria News was the official Syrian partner, endorsed by the Ministry of Information on behalf of the BBC.  The project aimed to set up an interactive online training platform, the Ara2 [opinions] Academy, for Syria’s journalistic and blogging communities, creating networks between the two.  This reflected the changing status of bloggers in the regional media and responded to their aspiration to be seen as credible social commentators.  The project also supported Syria News as an example of a sustainable independent media organisation, with managerial staff taking part in study tours in London and in business development training.

BBC Media Action did not work with a local partner on blogger training, as this could have alienated and excluded parts of the blogging community. Instead, the BBC collaborated with an informal network of bloggers from across the country and recruited mentors for the distance learning system (the Ara2 Academy) who were trained at workshops in London and Damascus.  Two Arabic-language courses, ‘Basic Journalism Skills’ and ‘Social Media Tools’, were delivered through the bespoke Ara2 Academy platform and face-to-face workshops that gave beneficiaries the chance to apply theory to practice. The programme did not advertise courses officially, yet within days of the announcement of the training programme on the Syrian blogosphere and through word of mouth, over 70 journalists and bloggers applied for places – a sure sign of the huge appetite for training on basic journalism principles and social media tools in Syria. A total of 25 bloggers, 31 web journalists, and 7 trainees who were both bloggers and journalists took part in the training programme before the worsening political situation put an end to it.  For most of the journalists on Ara2, the social media course was their first introduction to online publishing tools and the use of blogs. Many bloggers were largely unaware of ethical standards of journalism and were introduced to web tools that they had heard of, but did not have the skills, confidence or know-how to use.  The project revealed that those who use the Internet – even those with their own blogs – often lack the skills to use the medium to its full potential.  These partnerships have not survived Syria’s recent upheavals. The owners of Syria News have opened a second office for the newspaper in Turkey while the bloggers keep a low profile as the Assad regime continues to crack down on all dissent. Some former students have been detained for their outspoken blogging or journalism.  Some have left Syria.  Participation in Ara2 (a foreign-funded platform) was used as an excuse for detentions, as it is illegal to have contact with foreign organisations, even though no bloggers were charged with anything related explicitly to their participation in the programme.  Their plight is a clear demonstration of the risks of working with individuals in Syria.

Arij (Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism)
Arij [http://arij.net] was created by leading Arab journalists, editors, media activists and professionals concerned about the lack of investigative reporting skills that could benefit local communities.  The programme was originally set up in 2005 with funds from the Danish Parliament, disbursed through
Copenhagen-based International Media Support (IMS).  The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) is now a key donor.  Arij works within the parameters set by the Syrian Government, with official approval from the relevant ministry to train private and state-sector journalists through its office in Syria.  Journalists trained by Arij form a strong clique and there is no sense of threat or risk involved in participating.  This method of working in Syria is what Ibrahim Yakhour, calls “comforting” and “expansive”. 79 

Arij has trained many young journalists with no objections from the Government and with official endorsement, resulting in a bigger buy-in from those who don’t want to cross any red lines (such as
working with foreign media). The training usually focuses on social and environment reporting, which are
important issues for Syria, but the skills learned can be applied to many other areas, including politics. 80

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/230941/Project_list_2013-14.pdf   14 ½ Million of your money on media in the Middle East and Africa.(just 1 year!)
BBC Media Action (all funded by us, from our annual TV licence fee and by tax by direct grants of huge amounts of public money through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office).

Here is the UK Column’s view of the BBC, and its plethora of dangerous meddling and interfering spin-off charities, run by and employing BBC cronies, primarily BBC Media Action:-
   
Part 1 of the UK’ Column’s  exposure of the BBC.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2JnBhf4bqc

Part 2 of our exposure of the BBC, focussing on their change agenda in the Middle East and Africa


 

Dialogue in the Middle East  (Here’s another one, The Media Dialogue Programme)
The Media Dialogue Programme helps journalists improve their professionalism, says Simon Derry

Has the BBC actually played a large role in facilitating the recent civil unrest and the Arab Spring uprisings? http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmfaff/80/80awe20.htm


The British People are a decent bunch, we may be misguided and far too trusting, but we are mainly a thoroughly kind, good natured and caring race.  In the main, the British People work bloody hard, pay their considerable dues, pay astronomical amounts of tax, and vote and volunteer to try to keep this country a respectable one.  A whole bunch of British people have worked bloody hard for many years to get this country a Freedom of Information Act.
Now this country’s infrastructure is being “changed” from the old private/public sector system which worked quite well and would have greatly benefitted from the Freedom of Info. Act 2000, to what we have now – which is a three system structure, with the inclusion and massive growth of the Third Sector. 
The Third Sector is not accountable.  It is hard to find out what goes on, even who and what these groups are.  The Freedom of Information Act 2000 does not apply to the 3rd Sector which is taking over from the Public sector in numerous areas of public life- which the Third Sector refers to as “Civil Society.”
British tax payers’ money should be being spent on health care, defence, education, elder and disabled care, science and development, amenities, pensions, the land, the roads………etc.  This is what we want, this is what the British people want.
Why is our money being spent on massively expensive and dodgy schemes like these?  This is just ONE example, there will be thousands more about which we are unaware…..THIS NEEDS TO STOP.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/230941/Project_list_2013-14.pdf   £14 ½ Million of your money to be spent on media in the Middle East and Africa.(just 1 year!) UK Government's own facts and figures.

NOW YOU KNOW WHY WE ARE HAVING PUBIC SECTOR CUTS! 

AND THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WEST MEDDLES!

syrian-shia-child-who-watched-parents-killed-has-heart-cut-out-by-obama-supported-syrian-rebels-islam
According to Syrian Truth’s Facebook page, the photo is of a toddler who was living in the Deir ez-Zor Governate in eastern Syria, bordering Iraq. She was tied up by members of the U.S.-supported “Free Syrian Army” — which is dominated by foreign, Sunni jihadis — and made to watch as her mother and father were killed for being Shia. Here is how the Obama administration is using your tax dollars — mockingly in the name of “freedom.”
As you can see her heart has been cut out and stuffed with cloth. No need to speculate what was done to that heart.
Want your tax monies to be supporting Barack Hussein, Francois Hollande and David Cameron’s funding of “rebels” (terrorists=devout Muslim savages) in the Saudi, Qatari, Jordan, and Turkey’s Sunni genocide of Shia’s? source – The Muslim Issue



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