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This month's disability-related media gaffes
Breaking into news
In real, rather than reality, TV it’s an old, old story: when did you last see a disabled person on a news bulletin?
BBC must face up to reality
There was a time when the BBC made some of the most interesting, challenging and varied disability programmes anywhere. Sadly, not only are those days long gone, but the empowering philosophy which gave them their creative impetus has also deserted the corporation
The road to unenlightenment
What’s not entirely clear is whether, on at least one recent occasion, The Guardian – keeper of the nation’s sense of proportion – lost the plot completely or was operating at a post-modern level beyond the ken of most ordinary mortals
Good news on screen
The Media Trust ITN and Mencap have got together with people with learning difficulties to produce a pilot news programme aimed at and partly made by members of the learning disabled community
Ground-breaking? Or car-crash TV?
A BBC Three series is causing quite a stir and it hasn’t even been made yet
Calling all the shots
A campaign has been launched to raise awareness of audio description on programmes
Social care on the air
January was designated Social Care month by BBC Radio 4. Two of the network’s live daily shows, You and Yours and Woman’s Hour, used large chunks of their air time to give the social care system a thorough going over
Trouble at Mills
Clearly, the glare of publicity and attention she received from being on our relaunch cover just wasn’t enough for Heather Mills. No sooner had Disability Now hit the newsstands, than she hit the Street of Shame
Robert is FT to burst
Was that a collective gasp of astonishment which went round the Disability Now operations hub? It was. The FT, of all papers, and its news editor, of all people, coming on like Colonel Huff-Puffington about the notion of disability hate crime
Andy's personal Hell
OK, when did you last encounter a TV or radio show written by and starring the same disabled person?