Let’s
start Question Time - Elise
Q1: What is the Question
Time?
Question Time is
a Political Topical Debate Show on BBC Channel One. Its original Country is
United Kingdom and this programme broadcast in English. The Question Time is start
from 1979 until now. Each episode runs 60 minutes. All of the shows are filmed
around the Britain.
Q2: Who are the people sitting there?
Basically,they are the presenter,5 panellists and audience.
For the presenter,
there are 3 presenters who have presented this show and current one is a gentleman
called David Dimblely. Two of them, Peter Sissons and David Dimblely do not have
a specific political position.
Moreover, there
are used to 4 panellists in the programme and there are 5. 3 of them from each
of the three major parties(Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats),
another public figure (non-governmental organization), another non-partisan
member or leading member of a 4th political party.
In addition, if
you want to be an audience for this TV show, you need to experience a really
careful selection by the BBC producer. It is simple for you to apply, and what
you need to do is just click this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17154440
and fill up a form which will ask you some personal details and political
questions. Then you can just wait for the phone call and E-mail.
Q3: What question are they asked? Is the question
planned?
Since BBC
producers really want find people who are keen to argue and debate with the
panel group during show, all the questions are from the audience before the
show start. And David Dimblely often emphasize that ‘I swear to God, they do
not know what questions are until they’re asked them by audience.’ People
who are selected by the producers need to ask questions, they will do a short briefing
in the corner.
Q4: Is the programme live? If not, is there any
censorship?
This programme
is not live but it recorded in front of the audience. Usually the recording
will be down in a single take in order to precise it as a live broadcasting.
From the BBC website, they said that ‘Some exchanges occasionally have to be
edited out for legal or taste/decency reasons.’ It means this TV show got censorship
and it has done by the producer.
Q5: Is any other way I can interact with the show?
Of course yes,
it has a SMS contribution and twitters. You can send a SMS during the programme
and a team of 4 journalists will select 10 of them to put show off the TV.
Q6: Is the programme neutral? Or can be trusted?
My answer is no.
According to by Van Zoonen (2005)’s argument, the role television itself has some
negative influence on citizenship. TV Programme has destroyed the trust between
audience and politicians because there is many politicians’ action do not correspond
with their words. In addition, from the a report by Daily Mail, there is a
Director from Question Time called Mark Thompson admit that BBC dose have bias,
especially on the selection for audience and questions. Moreover, a magazine
named New Statement illustrates some statistics about consists of panel group. It
is said that there is a wise balanced on them but the study need to be
continued. However, from the BBC website, we can know that this programme gets
some censorship and it is not live. To exaggerate, the producer can edit out whatever
they want, and the producer choses carefully for the audience and questions. It
means they can almost control everything.
Q7: What is the role of the
Question Time in British Politics?
According to the
article from Nick Anstead and Ben O’Loughlin (2011), it is said that the
Question time is not only an ‘institution’ which means part of British current
affairs broadcasting setup, but also an important political event of note that
can attract many political figure to gather together every week. Additionally,
it has a wide influence on the Newspaper, Radio, and Social Media on Internet. British
like to talk about the panel’s performance or issues they debate on. All the
literacy delivered from the show can help to form people’s political identity.
Reference
List:
• Study and Research
Nick Ansted ,
Ben O’Loughlin (2011). ‘The Emerging Viewertariat and BBC Question Time
- Television Debate and Real-Time
Commenting Online’, In: The International Journal of Press/Politics.
vol. 16, No.4 pp.440-462 http://hij.sagepub.com.ezproxy.sussex.ac.uk/content/16/4/440.full.pdf+html
• Audio： http://www.televisiontunes.comhttp://www.televisiontunes.com/Question_Time.html/Question_Time.html
• Audience Information:
Unknown.
(2012). ‘Join the Question Time Audience’, Available from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ukpolitics-17154440
[Last Accessed 24.2.2012]
Unknown. (2012). ‘My Question Time
Experience’, Available from: http://www.latentexistence.me.uk/my-question-time-experience[LastAccessed 12.10.2012]
Unknown. (2010).
‘Was the Question Time audience hand picked by the BBC’, Available
from: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091023081437AADF4yQ[Last Accessed 2010]
Unknown.
(2005). ‘Question Time for Question Time’, Available from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_4200000/newsid_4202800/4202877.stm
[Last Accessed 26.1.2005]
• Experience(Blog, Website, News Site)
Unknown. (2012). ‘BBC Question Time –
Tips for Appearing in the Audience’, Available from:
[Last Accessed 6.5.2012]
Unknown. (2012). ‘A student’s
experience on Question Time’, Available from:http://nottspolitics.org/2012/12/05/a-students-experience-on-question-time/[Last Accessed 5.12.2012]
Unknown. (2010).My‘BBC Question
Time' Audience Experience’, Available from:http://guythemac.com/2010/05/02/my-bbc-question-time-audience-experience/
[Last Accessed 2.5.2010]
• Basic Information
• Peer Review
Goselett, M. (2012). ‘Question Time does have bias, says BBC as it
is revealed areas where episodes are
filmed are researched’, Available from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193652/Question-Time-does-bias-says-BBCrevealed-areas-episodes-filmed-researched.html[Last Accessed 25.8.2012]
Phil Burton-Cartledge. (2012). ‘Is
there bias on BBC Question Time’, Available from: http://www.newstatesman.com/broadcast/2012/11/there-bias-bbc-question-time
[Last Accessed 26.11.2012]
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