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As people know news gathering and reporting has a fairly standard On 30 Aug, 16:52, Alison <alison.l...@gms.org.uk> wrote: > On 29 Aug, 17:18, fear-naidheachd <fearnaidhea...@googlemail.com> > > Is it to be "Same again please" or should Gaelic news set its own > - Show quoted text -
structure, the assumption being is that people are used to it and
that's the way they like their news. I agree that there is a degree of
centrism in all news, focusing on a particular area or audience. What
Gaelic news providers might want to ask is what do Gaelic viewers want
from their news? Something different may be the answer, or many people
may like the BBC format for instance and so want the opportunity to
watch that in Gaelic? I agree that introducing areas or subjects
seldom broached on other channels could be the way ahead. There's also
the question of an editorial policy, some news programmes are in
effect practicing campaigning journalism, where as others tend to try
and report the facts more often than not. Some news programmes
highlight little-known wars or issues. We all can think of stories we
have seen which has been shown from one side in a conflict for
example, does the Gaelic news want to pride itself for having an
unusually objective stance when reporting? Something which cannot be
said of many news programmes.
> Good question. There's a strong flavour of Londoncentrism in the BBC's
> UK news offering (the World Service makes a refreshing change) and the
> "Scottish Six" debate still hasn't got to the bottom of what we want
> from a Scottish news service. Perhaps Gaelic news could lead the
> way ... how about an environmental focus, for example? Or news from
> our nearest neighbours -- Norway, Iceland, Ireland -- does the world
> have to be seen through a prism that puts things in order of
> importance thus -- London, Home (whose home?) Counties, Western
> Europe, America, Rest of World, with Scotland somewhere near the
> bottom of the list? If Gaelic news can break free from this mindset,
> who knows ... where Gaelic leads might not Scottish news in English
> follow?
> wrote:
> > agenda? One-minute hits or 30-minute magazines?- Hide quoted text -