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By Katharine Quarmby

ISBN-10: 1846273463

ISBN-13: 9781846273469

Each few months there's a stunning information tale concerning the sustained, and infrequently deadly, abuse of a disabled individual. It's effortless to write down off such circumstances as bullying that acquired out of hand, bad legal anomalies or regrettable disasters of the care approach, yet in reality they element to a extra uncomfortable and primary fact approximately how our society treats its so much unequal voters. In Scapegoat, Katharine Quarmby appears to be like at the back of the headlines to query and comprehend our pain with disabled humans. Combining interesting examples from background with tenacious research and robust first individual interviews, Scapegoat will swap the best way we expect approximately incapacity - and in regards to the alterations we needs to make as a society to make sure that disabled individuals are obvious as equivalent voters, necessary of appreciate, now not goals for taunting, torture and assault.

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Thus, in holding interviewees to account, this is an interview style that allows a substantial degree of interpretative scope for the journalist: Not only may the interview be held to account within the interview for actions and words prior to it, but the interview may generate material that can be used subsequently for accountability purposes. (Montgomery, 2007: 155) Blair Frost Blair [The Iraqi people want] the same opportunities and the same rights that we enjoy in countries such as this. 4 ╇ Interview with Tony Blair on the Al-Jazeera Frost over the World programme on 17 November 2007 41 BROADCAST JOURNALISM ‘Neutralism’ and challenging questions The hazards that Montgomery alludes to may well be one of the reasons why so many politicians avoid accountability interviews, usually with the evasive turn of phrase that they are ‘not available for comment’.

Murphy’s voice appears over footage, and she anchors her position as part of the scene through the use of deictic pointers ‘this road’ and ‘this cover’. Murphy then gives way to the professional voice of the policeman (captioned on screen and voiced through a translator), followed by two holidaymakers from the campsite at which the victims had stayed. 9. 11) are emphasized by the shifts in broadcast setting. There are a number of points regarding this use of non-professional or specialist interviewees that are worth thinking about.

Balance and bias in times of conflict It is obvious that there are a number of underlying values that motivate broadcast and other forms of journalism, and we have looked at just a few of these. We are now going to look at the work journalism does to maintain normative principles of journalistic balance, looking at the contentious area of international conflict. When Tony Blair was in his final days in office as British prime minister in June 2007, he made a speech in which he identified the challenges facing the media.

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