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TV & Radio Task Force

 

The TV & Radio Task Force is dedicated to documenting and analysing how television and radio media present information in terms of language, accuracy, images and graphics. Particular focus will be paid to cross referencing news stories and comparing presentation strategies between major networks. Quotes from tv and radio sources will be documented to stimulate discussion concerning issues of language and meaning. All of this material, including sound and video, will be fed into the central archive and contributions are welcome. If you would like to contribute to the discussion please visit the forum.

 

News Flash!!! See the Preliminary Findings of the Television Task Force here

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1 August 2005 BBC2 – 21:00 The New Al-Qaeda

Re: The video statement made by the ‘Military spokesman for Al-Qaeda in Europe’, Jamel Amidan that linked the Madrid train bombings to Spain’s military support of the American led coalition in Iraq.

Peter Taylor: "There were seismic repercussions. In the election the government fell. Its successor declared that Spanish troops would be brought home from Iraq. Terrorism had worked".

In fact the socialist party had promised in it’s election campaign before the bombings to bring troops home if elected.

Help with deciphering the concluding statement would be appreciated, please post your comments on the forum.

Peter Taylor: "The Madrid train bombings caught the intelligence services off guard, just as Casablanca did, they they were looking the other way at the old Al-Qaeda not the new. This is the fundamental change in the so called war on terror. What worries the intelligence community today is not that Madrid and Casablanca were Al-Qaeda as we have known it, but that they were not."

 

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24 July 2005 ITV – 18:30 News

Re: the photo below

Emma Murphy: "Riding the rapids in North Wales, a laughing Shehzad Tanweer sits towards the front of the craft, as ringleader Sadik Khan raises a two finger salute to the camera…noone will ever know if an acknowledgement of victory or peace."

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23 July 2005 BBC 1 – 10:00 news

Re: Brasilian man shot on tube

Darren Jordan: "The police say the man’s death was a tragedy, but in a statement said he had emerged from a house under surveillance and his behaviour had been suspicious".

What is the significance of but in this sentence? Whose ‘but’ is this, the BBC or the police?

Post your comments on the forum!

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14 July 2005 East London Mosque, Whitechapel

Re: TV news team observe the two minute silence

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