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sorry, yes, coming soon Peter Messenger Davies Maire wrote: > Hi Peter - thanks for this. > > Would you mind summarising it for me? > > It would save me a lot of time and effort, as I'm preparing for very early flight in morning. > thanks > > Máire > > Máire Messenger Davies, PhD, FRSA (Professor) > Director, Centre for Media Research, > School of Media, Film and Journalism > University of Ulster > Cromore Rd, Coleraine BT52 1SA > Telephone: +44(0)28324069 > www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/media/cmr.html > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Media, Communications & Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) - Policy Network on behalf of Peter Lewis > Sent: Sun 7/12/2009 7:45 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [MECCSA-POLICY] REPORT ON MEETING > > Dear Maire > > First thanks to you - and to Ivor and Howard - for organising the meeting. > > The report is fine with one omission - the point I made about the need > to recognise community radio as a local form of PSB. After Jonathan > Breckon's advice that letters in the press have some small leverage, it > was amusing to see Ben Bradshaw asking the next day, (Guardian Letters > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/27/ben-bradshaw-digital-britain)for > suggestions about how to fund local news. His last para read: > > "We think it reasonable to use about 3.5% of the licence fee - the > proportion currently ringfenced to help pay for digital switchover - to > ensure there continue to be plural, local and regional news. If Polly > [Toynbee], the BBC, or anyone else can come up with a better way of > making sure that happens, let's hear it." > > So I dashed off a letter (thinking that 35 other people from the seminar > might also be doing the same) which was published on July 1st. The > inevitable editing compressed the letter but made my point succinctly > You can see it at > http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/01/letters-fund-local-news > > Do you feel you could add to your report a sentence summarising my > position? It was a "minority" view, it's true, but look what happened to > Selwyn Lloyd's in the Beveridge Report! > > best > > Peter > > Peter M. Lewis > Senior Lecturer in Community Media > Department of Applied Social Sciences > London Metropolitan University > Ladbroke House > 62-66 Highbury Grove > London N5 2AD > > http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/depts/dass/staff/peterlewis/ > http://www.communitymedia.eu/ > http://www.radiostudiesnetwork.org.uk > > > > Messenger Davies Maire wrote: >> Dear colleagues >> >> I attach a report on the policy network meeting held on June 26th at >> City University. >> >> I want to present this to the MEccsa executive tomorrow (13th July). >> Apologies that it's rather short notice, but could those who were at the >> meeting get back to me with any amendments asap? Jonathan Breckon has >> already checked and corrected the section about his talk. >> >> with thanks to all for their contributions >> >> best >> >> Máire >> >> Máire Messenger Davies, PhD, FRSA (Professor) >> Director, Centre for Media Research, >> School of Media, Film and Journalism >> University of Ulster >> Cromore Rd, Coleraine BT52 1SA >> Telephone: +44(0)28324069 >> www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/media/cmr.html >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA Policy mailing >> list W: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa-policy.html >> >> Please visit this page to browse list's archives, or to join or leave >> the list. >> > > > Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo > > ------------------------------------------------- > MeCCSA Policy mailing list > W: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa-policy.html > > Please visit this page to browse list's archives, or to join or leave the list. > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > MeCCSA Policy mailing list > W: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa-policy.html > > Please visit this page to browse list's archives, or to join or leave the list. > Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo ------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA Policy mailing list W: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa-policy.html Please visit this page to browse list's archives, or to join or leave the list.