Some of you may know, I'm currently a Broadcast Journalism student, I have to make a 10 min package on whatever I want. However, i am really struggling to think of things to cover. Do you guys have any ideas?! anything that gets your beef?! anything in the news that you would like to know more about?! any programmes you really like, documentary? newsy?! Thanks
Disney! I think it would be good to do it on the stockmarket, i think that would be very good and very relevant to the ecnomic crisis the now.
problem with that is finding somebody to talk to, and actually understanding what the hell theyre going on about, its too confusing for me. so far im looking into Alzheimers/Dementia, and cooking in schools/obesity levels.
the obesity thing is good There is the ongoing debate about the vaccination for cervical cancer - I find that interesting
I'm really interested in the nhs postcode lottery. There is a lot of media coverage right now on patients being peanalised and made to fund all their care if they purchase their own chemotherapy drugs. Something else quite recent in the news is the cervical cancer vaccination now in schools, and how some Catholic schools have banned it as it acts against a STD virus. I think dementia is a really meaty topic. You'd easily fill 10min with it, very ethical too. Can you tell I'm a healthcare student??? haha. Good luck with your report. Hardest bit is picking something and sticking to it.
hmmmm well i would suggest a topic you find intresting and run with that, i would have thought that PI closing was a big deal, or i'm sure the whole recent coverage with the PM and english parliament issues..... but its on anything you want i wouldnt have thought it would have to be relevent for today just showing your passion for something
The closure of PI is a good one. The NHS postcode lottery is a good one, that was a topic we had to discuss in modern studies, very unfair. You could talk about the english parliament and how unstable it is and talk to your MP, get a meeting, you will get lots out of that.
You guys are fab!!!! I knew i could count on you all. the ideas are all greaat. Though i have some questions with the cervical one. are parents told enough about the vaccine?! can anyone over hte age have it?! would you girls want it?!
I would want it, me and my friends have been talking about it a lot lol. But a friend phoned up a clinic just yesterday and apparently you can only get it between the ages of 18 - 25 but only if you have had 0 or 1 sexual partner but they didnt explain the reasons behind this. I understand parents having reservations as the long term effects are unknown but it angers me when its suggested that it'll encourage promiscuity amongst young people - I really disagree with that view! My youngest cousin is 13 so she is getting it at the moment and the girls themselves got a big presentation on it with leaflets to take home to their parents.
The reason i think they dont give you it if you have had more than one sexual partner is because they are inserting the virus into your body and if some of it is already been passed on from sexual interaction it may cause a fatal disruption and cause the virus to spread rather than be fought against. I think its due to that, but i am unsure.
I think the government has a huge responsibility to enforce sexual education alongside this new vaccine. We never got it in school until about year 9 or 10, and this vaccination is coming in for year 8 pupils. Some might not have reached appropraite psychological or personal maturity to appritiate the implications of this vaccine (although I must say kids grow up very fast these days, much much faster than I ever did!!) It's not going to totally immunise ever girl against such STD's nor against cervical cancer, and it's important to drive that message through to them. There is still those few percent who develop the condition without the STD. Being under 16 means you can consent yourself for a treatment without your parents needing to give permission, so it really is up to the girls who will be getting it not their school or guardians. Are the girls themselves being given the right information and support to make an informed decision on having the vaccination or not? The vaccination is very expensive. You might argue that the funding could instead be used for sexual health education, or in cervical screening and smeer tests..would this produce a lower cervical cancer rate than the vaccination would? This isn't necessarily my opinion, I think it's a really positive step forward ;D just trying to play devils advocate a bit!!
it looks like you have decided but i am throwing one in there. Children's television. the banning of noddy, because of a potential gay scene. why are we masking our kids? the same is with tv ads, the heniz ad cos parents had to explain to their kids about gay couples. i would like the injection. it would be good if they offered it at universities. i may ask my doc about it.
I have a lecture tomoro and i have to walk in there with LOADS of ideas so you guys are being amazing! i was talking to my housemate about hte cancer vaccine, and shes going to see our nurse here at uni soon, and shes going to talk about gettin the vaccine, so im going to tag along and see if thats what i wanna to do my story on. I didnt know they were banning noddy....gay scene?! please...tell me more, im like a sponge ( that i suck up information lol!)
thats another good topic. as if kids needs 'protecting' like that, political correctness has gone insane. aparantly postman pat was under threat because people didn't like the idea of him going to talk to the children at the school gates :
on the topic of the cervical cancer vaccine - maybe that money should have been put towards cervical smears. Having the age set at 25 is ridiculous, surely they should be available to anyone who is sexually active? A girl living near me died recently aged 24. I'm not against the vaccine but this needs to be looked at.
... I stopped reading newspapers for the sake of reading newspapers since I got to Disney and never picked up the terrible habit again now I'm back in London (ugh, London Paper, London Lite, Metro)... I'm much happier now and I think this helps! Ironically, that could be an interesting topic. The public mindset and how we are conditioned to keep up with things that really we have no need to except for morbid curiousity.
The cervical cancer vaccination i think it is a great topic to discuss, but as i am male i do not know a lot about it. The childrens program thing is rediculous now and some nursery rhymes are banned or have to have words changed within them. Everything is looked at in a different way, not in the way it is intended. Kids program are there to let them have something fun and enjoyable to watch but the "paranoid parents" see this as a wrong message to their childrens fragile minds. It is rediculous. They do not know any better, they would not understand it in the way parents look at it. Now that would be an amazing argument and debate!
they banned noddy. because him an bog ears slept in the same bed. it was banned for around three years i think. they have brought it back in 3D. there are other exmaples like nursery rhymes. it was ba ba black sheep, then it got changed to ba ba white sheep and some people are now taught ba ba rainbow sheep.
What? Thats just silly, rainbow sheep? Why is everything so political nowadays, why cant people just enjoy tv.
I was a primary teacher and when I had infants it was rainbow sheep in my school and we also had to call the blackboard a chalkboard but I'd grown up calling it a blackboard so always got that one wrong
