How your original neighbourhoods shape you
The Christmas/New Year holiday season often has us reminiscing by way of the lens, through which we saw life in the first place where we...
Lets make media covering real things affecting everyone and bring back stories which large news outlets don't cover anymore - from the grandmother raising money for charity in her lawn bowls club, through to community organisations pushing to make the world a better place... In the early to mid 1990s, while I worked at a local community radio station, I had to write and broadcast local news, which was outside of what I like to call the corporate narrative and in 2001, I did a TAFE module in Film and Media in a university preparation course. This module taught that metropolitan daily newspapers and the national papers reflected the market-based capital economy. There is nothing wrong with this approach, but by this time I already liked the idea of writing stories outside of the news silo format of the metropolitan dailies and that is exactly what I intend to do in this blog.