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Originally Posted by Alanmelon
Ok, so we've heard a few ridiculous suggestions about satanists and other minority groups not being catered for, and I think we all agree that homosexuals constitute a large sized group in the UK, but using your reasoning are we also to assume that ntl are prejudiced against other groups of equal or greater size?
We don't have a disabled persons channel, does that mean that ntl are also discriminating against this group? As mentioned so many times already; there is absolutely no evidence that ntl are not carrying a gay channel on the basis of discrimination.
So would ntl then have the responsibilty to foot the bill for all programming on this minority channel as well as it's free carriage, or is that someone else's 'social responsibility'? If so, who's?
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Unfortunatly (for me) we live in a society where the media is owned by whoever has the money to own it. If the person or persons who own it, are predudiced against a certain section of society they can refuse to show related media or more importantly put up barriers to their inclusion (like econiomic ones to hide their predudice).
As a way of protecting against this, people who own the media should have some responsibitly in law for showing minority related media. The cost of which should be taken up by the media owner.