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Race and the media

After reading our features on race and the media, what do you think about these topics?
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• Why does the media fail in its coverage of "race issues"?
• What is needed to make the media more accurately reflect the black urban experience?
• Do we need stricter laws regulating media stereotyping?

What are your opinions about........

• Exactly what is wrong with the coverage of black people and minorities on the media?
• Who controls the black image on the British media? What needs to be done to put more blacks in the management picture?
• Do Blacks have a different media agenda from the one portrayed?
• Why are "race, immigration and crime" constant high profile themes in the British news? If regulation controls don't work, what will?

What new articles or information would you like about ......

• How to challenge and change the press and broadcasting regulation bodies?
• What support should be given to the "good guys" -- the organisations that help victims of media abuse?
• What should be done to monitor the defamation of Black people on the Internet, in web pages and online news presentation?
• Cyber rights and cyber liberties: How can the Internet be used in combating social exclusion?

Do you have any questions to put to our resource persons and contributors.....

Adam C Powell, vice-president for technology, he Freedom Forum, USA
Donald McTernan, Community Media Association, London
Lisa Beattie, The Glasgow Media Group
Ian Law, University of Leeds
Dr. Beulah Ainley, author of Black Journalists, White Media
Martin Edwards, freelance writer
Mike Jempson, PressWise, the media information and training group
Jim Pines, researcher