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Overall, I do believe that the radio 1 breakfast show is fulfilling the BBC's remit. It sustains citizenship and civil society, promotes education and learning, stimulates creativity and cultural excellence, represents the UK, its nations, regions and communities, brings the UK to the world and the world to the UK and also emerges communications. An example of when they sustain citizenship and civil society is when they present the news in an unbiased and neutral tone. This shows that they do not want to cause an outrage or force their audience to conform to a certain belief or way of life, they want to allow people to chose their beliefs about a topic and remain open minded. An example of when they promoted education and learning is when they educate viewers on the current stories in the world of politics. This keeps the viewers updated with what is going on and helps them engage more closely with the world around them. An example of when the stimulate creativity and cultural exce...

In the Daily mail article, found that the people that play violent video games more frequently, have "fewer neurons in their hippocampus, a key memory centre in the brain". However, those who rarely or did not play violent video games have more "essential grey matter in the brain" (parts in the brain that help with sensory perception like speech and decision making). This supports the hypodermic needle theory as it shows that violent video games inject our brains with ideas that brainwash us and stop us from clear and moral "decision making". It also shows that it contributes to brain damage. it also supports the moral panic theory as it would cause an outrage or anxiousness in parents for their children who are heavy gamers. The guardian article found that violent video games being played at a young age could lead to violent behavior as an adolescent or adult. This shows the theory of cultivation theory and Hypodermic needle theory.

Who decides the radio one playlist? The playlist team for Radio 1 have a pre playlist meeting on mondays and decide various different metrics to help them filter down what records they should be discussing in the main playlist meeting and which records they should be taking off the current playlist that week, because they need to refresh it every week. They discuss what is really connecting with the audience as well as looking at various metrics to decide what music should stay and what music should go. This presents a predetermined  of what we should bring up in the playlist meeting. Then on the tuesday for the main playlist meeting itself they present the final tracks to the rest of the committee.  They also ask the committee in advance what records they would like to come up on the playlist before they feedback.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/playlist  = The radio 1 playlist for this week (12th November 2018 week) 

How old is the BBC:  The BBC is 96 years old as it was born on the 18 October 1922.  Who is Lord Reith and what connection does he have with the BBC? Lord Reith was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the UK. He was in fact the founder of the BBC. He was its general manager when it was set up as a British broadcasting company in 1922, and he was its first director general when it became a public corporation in 1927.  When did it start broadcasting Radio 1? The BBC started broadcasting radio 1 on 20 September 1967.  What are the BBC's five public purposes, as set out in the Royal charter? - To provide news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them.  - To support learning for people of all ages - To show creative, high quality and distinctive output and services - To support, represent and reflect upon the diversity of the unit...

Why don't young people actively listen to the radio? I think one of the main reasons why young people no longer actively listen to the radio is due to the invention of social media and video platforms like YouTube. Young people no longer have to turn on the radio to engage with the outside word and keep up to date with news, music, celebrities etc, it is now available at the tap of a screen, on our smartphones. Instagram and snapchat have explore pages that give us news updates, celeb gossip and new music updates and You tube allows people to catch up on shows that they've missed, like for example the news, and not have to watch or listen to it live , which are easily accessible and can be accessed through a new way of communication that the world is currently obsessed with (the buzz around something new makes it considerably more interesting than the something that is old). Another reason I believe that young people no longer actively listen to the radio may be because some...

The BBC stands for British broadcasting corporation. Its headquarters are at the broadcasting house in Westminster London. It is the oldest national broadcasting organisation and it is the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It Produces television, radio and online content intended to educate, entertain and inform. The BBC is publicly owned as it disperses ownership among the general public in many shares of stock. The BBC is regulated by OFCOM-office of communications that is a government approved regulator for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom. It has a royal charter which is a formal document that is issued by a monarch, granting a right or power to an individual or body corporate. It is funded by a license fee of £150.50 per year, which the BBC uses to pay for its programmes and services. The BBC follows a PSB remit. PSB stands for public service broadcasting and a remit is an area of activity that an organisation...

Minecraft is game enjoyed by many, is heard of across the world and is said to be "the best selling PC game"  due to it selling 29 million copies; This essay covers information about minecraft's history, how it rose to global success and information on its key owners and people associated with it. Minecraft was founded in 2009 by a Swedish video game designer and programmer called Markus Persson  (Nickname:Notch). He was inspired by other games such as Dwarf fortress and Dungeon Keeper, as well as the fact that he grew up in a small town surrounded by forests. Notch was also at a young age an excessive Lego builder which, without a doubt, was also a source of inspiration for minecraft, where players use different blocks in 3D to to generate a creative and mind-blowing world of fun. Notch was an intelligent young boy as he took interest in coding at just age 8. Based on his childhood in Sweden, Notch first developed minecraft, naming it "the cave game". Notch f...