We’re living in an age of media capture. Rupert Murdoch built newsrooms that ran on scandal, entrapment, and phone hacking, filling tabloids with “tits and gossip”. In return for flattering coverage, successive governments helped clear the runway for his ever-expanding media monopoly. Billionaires and hedge funds buying up national and local titles, gutting newsrooms, and turning journalism into a vehicle for shareholder returns. And now, a deranged band of tech bro-oligarchs shape how information spreads online. We’ve seen Elon Musk amplify hateful speech to mass audiences with a single click – fueling real-world violence on our streets. Something needs to change.
That’s why we’ve launched our membership campaign: News You Own, Can’t Be Bought - a call to reclaim journalism as a public good, and build a people-powered newsroom in our city. This live recording brings together people fighting to change the system – through policy, campaigning, and alternative newsroom models.
Join Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins in conversation with Aman Sethi, editor-in-chief of openDemocracy, Banseka Kayemba, Director of Naked Politics, and Liz Pendleton, co-founder of the Media Revolution, as we ask: what would it take to take the media back?
What is People Just Do Something?
People Just Do Something is a relaxing and possibly enraging podcast about people who might self-identify as activists. Join professional busybody Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins, The Bristol Cable’s in-house Columbo, Priyanka Raval and a special guest each week as they attempt to untangle the means of effecting change in Bristol, broken Britain and beyond.
Episodes release ever other week with the first season spanning 6 episodes.
To secure the future of the show and The Bristol Cable, head to www.thebristolcable.org/join