Media Encounters

Issue 843

How mediated is your life? Two Cardiff students reveal their media habits

Amy Davies, a second year Journalism, Film and Media student from the Midlands, considers herself as an extremely frequent media-user. She produced a media diary to show her media consumption.

09:00: Wake up and switch the TV on to find an old episode of Frasier on Channel 4. Use this as background noise while getting ready to go to university.

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Soap drama too close to reality

by Sian Pitmann     Issue 843
Soap drama too close to reality

One of the biggest stories to hit news headlines this week has been the abduction of three-year-old Madeline McCann from her parents’ apartment while on a family holiday in Portugal. What has followed is the decision by the producers of Coronation Street to re-write an already filmed storyline involving the kidnap of baby Freddie Peacock, out of the fear of causing upset to the McCann family.

The storyline, which was due to take place over the coming weeks, was to feature Freddie Peacock disappearing in “mysterious circumstances” after a house fire. Scenes have already been filmed for the storyline, which according to ITV was due to run for several months, but now several scenes have been cut and will now have to be re-written because they bare many similarities with Madeline’s disappearance.

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