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BBC Asks for Volunteers for Gun Rights Hatchet Job
Posted on November 21, 2011 by Robert Farago
Just posted in a comment on TTAG, elevated here for your edification:
Hi there,
My name is Christina and were developing a series called Coming Here Soon for BBC3 in the UK, which is a presenter-fronted series that looks at what life is like for teenagers living in the US. The aim is to look at different aspects of young peoples lives in America to give an insight into similarities and differences with life for young people in the UK, in particular looking at topics that are especially relevant to our audience. One area that weve highlighted is girls and young women carrying guns and the better understanding of the place of guns in young lives for protection and hunting in the US . . .
We would like to speak with young women who are pro guns and feel that learning how to use a gun is a valid part of everyday life skills. I was wondering if you knew of any such girls and anyone who is campaigning for more Guns to be carried by women in the US on campus. I would also be interested in speaking with you as well as you obviously have lots of knowledge on females and guns. Please let me know if there is anyway you can help me at all and if so a good time to contact you.
The BBCs Factual Department is the largest provider of factual content in the world. Alongside our globally renowned science and history programming we have a long track record of producing acclaimed documentaries and compelling landmark films.
We produce thoughtful, in-depth and journalistically sound documentaries, informed by thorough research. As the UKs public service broadcaster, the BBC is bound by values of impartiality and fairness to all. As a department we have an excellent track record of working with sensitive subject matter, working successfully with individuals and institutions and dealing responsibly with vulnerable contributors. We spend much time researching and getting to know a subject matter and take our duty of care to those who are involved in our programmes extremely seriously. Our hope is to make sensitive and thoughtful documentaries which allow people to tell their own stories in their own words.
We have recently produced Our War, a series telling the story of the conflict in Afghanistan through video content filmed by soldiers themselves using personal cameras, mobile phones and helmet cameras. The series gave a unique perspective on the realities of war told from the point of view of the young men and women on the frontline. The critically acclaimed Women War Weddings and Me followed 21 year old Nel Hedayat returning to Afghanistan, the country of her birth, to find out what life is like for women to live there now; and Roger: Genocide Baby which followed a young Genocide survivor, Roger Nsengiyumva, returning to Rwanda to see if he could forgive his fathers killers.
Other recent BBC documentaries have included Wounded, a BAFTA and RTS award-winning documentary following two injured soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Between Life and Death, a sensitive portrait of the moving stories of doctors, patient and families over six months at the UKs top brain injury unit.
Please let me know if you need anymore information at all.
Thanks so much,
Christina [[email protected]]
[NB: That would be the same Christina Wilby who also scoured the net for contestants for the hypnosis-based game show I Know "What You Did Last Friday"
Posted on November 21, 2011 by Robert Farago
Just posted in a comment on TTAG, elevated here for your edification:
Hi there,
My name is Christina and were developing a series called Coming Here Soon for BBC3 in the UK, which is a presenter-fronted series that looks at what life is like for teenagers living in the US. The aim is to look at different aspects of young peoples lives in America to give an insight into similarities and differences with life for young people in the UK, in particular looking at topics that are especially relevant to our audience. One area that weve highlighted is girls and young women carrying guns and the better understanding of the place of guns in young lives for protection and hunting in the US . . .
We would like to speak with young women who are pro guns and feel that learning how to use a gun is a valid part of everyday life skills. I was wondering if you knew of any such girls and anyone who is campaigning for more Guns to be carried by women in the US on campus. I would also be interested in speaking with you as well as you obviously have lots of knowledge on females and guns. Please let me know if there is anyway you can help me at all and if so a good time to contact you.
The BBCs Factual Department is the largest provider of factual content in the world. Alongside our globally renowned science and history programming we have a long track record of producing acclaimed documentaries and compelling landmark films.
We produce thoughtful, in-depth and journalistically sound documentaries, informed by thorough research. As the UKs public service broadcaster, the BBC is bound by values of impartiality and fairness to all. As a department we have an excellent track record of working with sensitive subject matter, working successfully with individuals and institutions and dealing responsibly with vulnerable contributors. We spend much time researching and getting to know a subject matter and take our duty of care to those who are involved in our programmes extremely seriously. Our hope is to make sensitive and thoughtful documentaries which allow people to tell their own stories in their own words.
We have recently produced Our War, a series telling the story of the conflict in Afghanistan through video content filmed by soldiers themselves using personal cameras, mobile phones and helmet cameras. The series gave a unique perspective on the realities of war told from the point of view of the young men and women on the frontline. The critically acclaimed Women War Weddings and Me followed 21 year old Nel Hedayat returning to Afghanistan, the country of her birth, to find out what life is like for women to live there now; and Roger: Genocide Baby which followed a young Genocide survivor, Roger Nsengiyumva, returning to Rwanda to see if he could forgive his fathers killers.
Other recent BBC documentaries have included Wounded, a BAFTA and RTS award-winning documentary following two injured soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Between Life and Death, a sensitive portrait of the moving stories of doctors, patient and families over six months at the UKs top brain injury unit.
Please let me know if you need anymore information at all.
Thanks so much,
Christina [[email protected]]
[NB: That would be the same Christina Wilby who also scoured the net for contestants for the hypnosis-based game show I Know "What You Did Last Friday"
