Stories currently listening post is coming up next examining the spanish medias contrast and take on catalonia current controversial referendum well see a bit later. I think its time to referendum on it thats. A lie mr ginsburg and youre at the listening post here are some of the stories were covering this week barcelona versus madrid not the football match its the media in competition over the cattle and independent Story CommunityRadio Stations in mexico and the stories they tell no place to hide two more syrian journalists are killed in turkey and millennia listen up advertisers have got you all figured out. We begin the program with a story from the catalonian corner of spain which is holding an independence referendum this week at the different ways in which the spanish and cattle and media have reported on the referendum suggest that the coverage is one part journalism and one part propaganda that reflects the positions of the governments involved since the National Government in madrid is calling the whole referendum process unconstitutional t. V. Spains largest public broadcaster is the channel once described by its own journalists as a propaganda instrument of the state news outlets based in catalonia arent much better the widely watched t. V. Three which gets more than half of its funding from the Regional Government has been accused of indoctrinating the cattle on people rather than informing them cattle lands Pro Independence president car less pushed him on to is a former journalist so he knows a thing. Two about shaping the media narrative hes looking beyond madrid and has been busily trying to convince International Audiences through outlets like the Washington Post the guardian and since bridging the media divide in his own country is proving to be a much more difficult task our starting point this week is the catalan capital barcelona. Never. Let me tell you. That. This isnt about two conflicting narratives the state and private media in catalonia have drawn up and absolutely have to monitor narrative one sided and full of lies. On the part of. What i see you know its. Just part of me. Is that its very strange to assume that all people are deluded that they have no mind of their own and thats a single t. V. Station of the fifteen or twenty that Broadcasting Council all of which is capable of mobilizing all this chaos with thing in this country. Spain and its media are so divided that this comedian is offering to play peacekeeper. And. Keeping the peace is a challenge when in one corner the cattle and one stands a Regional Government determined to go ahead with an independence referendum the Spanish Court has ruled unconstitutional standing alongside back government in barcelona is a publicly funded channel t. V. Three which has taken a clear stand. Public television broadcasting. Advertising calling for participating in there were a friend and i know its seen by the constitutional court. My professor of the. Public service broadcaster they have they now said one day considered to be political instrument only station their. Media have established a frame of reference which reflects only the nationalist version of reality they havent even had to work out that. Theyve simply excluded more than half of the catalonians population from their frame of reference. Hundred or not even to. As the Catalan Media both of her independence and we defend that there is a majority of people who want to sort out the future of catalonia and decide it with their votes what divides the kaplan people is how to achieve this and this division is also visible in the catholic media. Couldnt see. If you look at thirteen daily newspapers they have different editorial lines some support the right to vote on october first some are against that i dont see a coherent unified message its exactly the opposite in fact there are many voices that articulate different opinions through these outlets. On the print side of the Catalan Media there is diversity to be found but its on television where one sees the difference between a diversity of views and a balance of yes and its not just t. V. Threes news broadcasts the lack of balance is glaring on what spaniards call us daytime talk shows. Are cheap to produce long on opinion short on fact and far from balanced as this independence voice has found himself badly outnumbered on t. V. Three pointed out. That many women are not. Quite in the band that this does. Not what the host wanted to hear but its hard to argue with them not to call Spains National broadcaster the madrid based t. V. A mirror image of catalonia as t. V. Three would be an oversimplification t. V. Has greater reach it broadcasts nationwide whereas t. V. Three is a regional china however on the question of cattle and independents and the referendum the imbalance issue plagues both chan so bad as in the big speech is that like i say i dont. You know that it turns into Something Else i will i mean. The influence of the government on public t. V. Is not only a problem in catalonia it affects the whole country it is very easy to fake and this is what happens on t. V. But their advantage is that they have a presence across the whole spanish territory and can put trey at the formed message to the rest of spain the very same thing also happening at the minute i mean. When you see the Media Coverage from madrid theres just one melody one thong with the way they are wrong and they are deluded and a lot of times they say oh the opinions in catalonia are very conditioned and manipulated by the media. But every media outlet has a different opinion when Media Outlets are not. Actually coercive and it sounds like they all play the same tune in madrid. I totally agree that t. V. Should be for a. Minute. A massive demonstration so they dont trust me the idea that there are that many people in the streets. And debate programs there are no representatives of the independent movement they are framing the show from. The spectator. We contacted t. V. Numerous times offering the network a chance to respond to its critics our requests went nowhere as for International News conference the kaffir lime government has clearly outmaneuvered its rivals in madrid Independence Movements that export their stories are often seen as underdogs by distant news outlets that are less familiar with the granular detail of a contemporary political conflict and more prone to cultural. And historical cliche catalans president. A former journalist also knows that when dealing with the foreign news media it helps to speak their language. Whenever she among. Them when they frontage of the Independence Movement yeah is that the last two president s of the Catalan Parliament to a mass and. A month communicate very well and speak various languages they are proficiency in english and french it is clear that those who are Pro Independence want to give this conflict and International Look and feel to enable european mediation that when negotiating long catalonia to vote in a referendum thats the strategy and its been done very well there you know. When and if there is something really quite tragic going on here as far as journalism is concerned journalists are always looking for sensational stories any foreign journalists the anglosaxon ones in particular are forever looking for even the slightest trace of the spanish civil war and contemporary events so the sensational approach is to say that we are dealing with a rebellion an uprising that signals the end of the spanish constitutional state thats the approach our foreign colleagues are taking. Spain is not the only country where the International Media fall into that trap resorting to lazy historical cliches however the real failings in the coverage live with news outlets in barcelona and madrid this is a tale of two stories coming from two cities with two governments pulling the strings and an electorate that deserves better. Other media stories that are on our radar this week an investigation is underway in turkey after two exiled syrian journalists who oppose the assad regime were found murdered at their home in istanbul barack at a freelancer who worked for the turkish channel t r t world a. B. C. News and news a divide based outlet run by the Syrian Opposition was found stabbed to death alongside her mother all ruben a veteran journalist and a member of the Syrian National coalition an anti assad expat group family members say both women had received Death Threats according to Turkish Police there are no suspects in this case for exiled syrian journalists have been killed in turkey over the past two years the new york based committee to protect journalists said turkey must ensure the protection of syrian journalists who have fled the country seeking safety we call on authorities to find those responsible for the murders and bring them to justice in india media watchers are reading between the lines trying to figure out. The editor of the countrys second largest english language newspaper really decided to quit his job or was pushed out by the government of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi bobby go she resigned from the Hindustan Times september eleventh citing personal reasons this past week though it emerged that goshes resignation came shortly after Prime Minister modi had held a meeting with the papers ownership hung up the h. T. Insists that meeting had nothing to do with goshes resignation and that quote no external party and that includes the pm or any member of the government has had any say or influence in the matter gauche was appointed the h ts editor in chief in two thousand and fifteen a year after modi was elected on a largely hindu nationalist platform undergo the h. T. Focused on the rise of nationalism in the country three months ago the paper launched a hate tracker an online reporting tool documenting hate crimes in india that tracker appears to have stopped updating about a week after the departure of the editor of the authorities in the Central African country of cameroon seem to be taking a two pronged approach to leaning on journalists there theyve been accused of using an anti terror law to silence critics and this past week they suspended dozens of reporters and warned news outlets over what they called biased reporting among the outlets affected are the newspapers the news that expresso may feel that built as well as a Radio Station based in the capital amplitude f. M. The head of camerons media regulator the n c c said the Media Outlets cited were not hearing to the rules of journalism and that he had acted after complaints from government ministers among others the n. C. C. Took action just a few days after the committee to protect journalists published a report criticizing the cameroonian government for using its anti terror laws to target reporters from English Speaking regions including about the internets youre now broadcaster ahmed whos been jailed for ten years when the government passed those anti terror laws in two thousand and fourteen. It said they were needed to counter the boko haram extremist group. Even in an era when the internet has changed the way we consume content there are good reasons why radio still appeals to audiences its intimate accessible and relatively cheap to produce which suits small communities with outlooks and issues of their very own take mexico population one hundred ten million in such a geographically and culturally diverse country Community Radio stations provide local news and views that mainstream news outlets do not sometimes that brings them into conflict with the authorities and also with criminal elements drug gangs with deadly results theres a new law promising Community Radio stations a small slice of the federal governments advertising budget but thats a bit of a double edged sword the stations could always use a revenue injection but could government money become a threat to their independence the listening post will yawn now on Community Radio in mexico what it means to audiences and what the future might hold. You know guess. What Community Media does is facilitate freedom of expression it provides a mechanism for citizen participation since it allows them to be part of the public debate theyve you know is an interesting place it is the community which sustains the station. So. Rodeo tilson know has been broadcasting for more than fifty years in the Southern State of veracruz its the oldest Community Radio station in mexico run almost entirely by volunteers and funded by monthly subscriptions local raffles. Concerts Community Money and time goes right back to the people in the form of shows like. Open town hall style most women. Politicians have been very keen to appear on. So they can compete with political opponents over who is more efficient transparent democratic song. When a. Local officials feel obliged to come to defend their actions publicly if Public Officials refuse to appear it is because they are doing something wrong or. That you knew. Was immobile pirate Radio Station run by student activists until the year two thousand when it settled in america mecca in the shadow of an active volcano. Volcano erupted the National Media created a local panic by mis reporting the call to evacuate. The facts helped calm the situation and found a permanent home on the way yes and i thought the rest and then. Programs which discussed the preservation of culture social issues political commentary on local and National Topics we often say our programming is kaleidoscopic because it mixes all these voices and reality a member of the Community Comes to us and says just a program according to what she would like to talk about what she would like to hear this is how the community participates how they listen to the radio. I there are Community Radio stations for workers which build support for labor reforms and issues around their jobs there are environmentalists feminists stations for different age groups this contributes to a media system which is much more. And diverse the classic example is for indigenous communities to be able to broadcast in their own languages in their own culture where you. Can. Write your own costs in the Tiny Mountain municipality or sometimes. In the state where haka. It broadcasts in a mix of spanish and the indigenous language here. But there is also for Radio Station bread the mentally structures that we can do media with our language and traditions none of us are communication of professionals we do this out of need our Radio Station bring forth us our oral traditions and our festivals from our communities. The knowledge of our lands our story commemorate not only so we can speak of. The mystified many things. With of course us in with that many in the. Commercial television is completely under a percentage of of mexico not ethnically more racially nor culturally those who are represented are white upper middle class people in general there is little space for new Cultural Expressions for the young for Indigenous People or women in different leadership roles or positions. But im a. Commercial media. Sensationalist news crime or disasters where the poor people need a. Way to listen and give even in. Our Community Life is not shown in the commercial media shows a stereotype of Imaginary Society which does not exist except for a very few the great majority of mexicans do not exist in this image that they. Get on the. Bar from selling the status quo Community Radio stations such as level i dont have both reported and stood alongside social movements that have been pushing for political change in mexico since the election of president Enrique Pena Nieto in two thousand and twelve. Veronica has a self received anonymous Death Threats and been arrested by police in this. Issue over the country and a mecca mecca is experiencing kidnappings the murder of women and extortion. These issues but not in a detached manner as something that happened to someone else but as a real condition affecting the social fabric of the community. And you come out of a Radio Station round the corner might be someone you have mentioned in your poll can do whatever they want to other media and journalists do not face this risk because they are removed from the rural and indigenous environment or. How many indigenous Community Radio journalists have been killed for the last year and two in two thousand and eight because of these relations with the mexican state but local government is one of the strongest from. Last year. Police who used force against the striking teachers killing eight of them we covered this story consistently and demanded that local authorities organize a public demonstration. That. It was historic an unprecedented for this region with the closing of roads and the seizure of public buildings in march rallied them thousand people from eight or ten towns. And much as they many of these stations have had to suffer attacks and aggressions precisely because of their critical stones they are not usually beloved by the authorities they are in comedian since journalism is inconvenient to power they have no. It is why the idea of accepting government money makes many Community Radio stations uncomfortable mexicos. New broadcast law requires that federal agencies spend one percent of their advertising budgets on Community Radio time its a tiny proportion of an enormous sum hardly a windfall and the fear that many Community Radio stations share is that government money well bring with it the governments message is that this reform does not really benefit us since it compromises our relationship with social movements these funds can be understood as a payment to the media in the end we decided that this money was not a gift given to us by the authority but a right and we want to exercise that right. If they want to the issue of these one percent demonstrates how little interest the mexican estate has Community Radio station one percent doesnt compare to what we contribute as well in tears making programs they have today we give much more than one percent and for whom is the other ninety nine percent where does the other ninety nine percent go. He said then the nato trend is to fund media which flatter the authority but this has to stop Communication Resources must be allocated to all media in a fair and equal way not punishing those media thats a critical we are treating this issue with caution because we dont want Community Radio to become dependent on public money. While questions are. Lawlessness and corruption he says the Mexican Government the countrys centralized Corporate Media can only tell the best one side of the story. Community Radio Station reflecting in representing social Rural CommunitiesIndigenous Peoples and women are a better expression of mexicos true diversity and are demanding the same. Finally speak to advertising executives and ill tell you that if. 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