Hands up who is poor, speaks English - and looks good on TV!

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Gunawardene, Nalaka (author)
    Format:
    Report
    Publication Date:
    2007-12
    URL:
    http://nalakagunawardene.com
    Published:
    Sri Lanka
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36924
    Subject Term:
    agricultural development, coverage, development, development communication, image, information issues, mass media, poor, reporting, rural communities, rural development, rural people, Sri Lanka, storytelling, television, video, and bias
    Notes:
    3 pages., Representative of TVE Asia Pacific speaks about his comments at the 8th Annual Symposium on Poverty Research in Sri Lanka. His session title: "Taking it off the page: alternative mediums of communication to influence change." Comments on inept media coverage of the poor and offers some basic rules of engagement in "telling media stories from the Bottom of the Pyramid."

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