Media as a catalyst on the road to a company culture of inclusion

Education order, committed to the inclusion of disabled people in the program offer

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• The inclusion of the disabled (and are also sick and due to the age of the help the needy) people in the program deal of many people would help contact anxieties and lead to more interactions.
• On the way to a company culture of inclusion, the media could have and should as a catalyst an important social and political role.

NR-Abg Dr. Franz-Joseph Huainigg, ÖVP speaker for people with disabilities, presented in the three weeks leading up to the no-choice on 28.09.2008, at its Homepage ^[1] 21 positions, demands and requests to the disability policy.

Here in Katja's and my discussion in Blog posts FJH21 Forum ^[2]:

Link to all my posts: katja.at/day/fjh21 ^[3]

Post DsH_ad_FJH21_21 (2008.09.08-03:58):

Position 1: The ORF and its public legal order ^[4] (FJH - original text see below)

I also find that the ORF has a need for the media presence of disabled people, a need for urgent action. The lack of Paralympics coverage, in the case of the subtitling of the offer, as well as barrier-free Online services are obvious, such as the international comparison shows. Not to fall behind, does not start the ORF, a Offensive, by itself it comes.

*** To report to the ORF really about a minority program, such as sports for the disabled more? ***

An unspectacular – of normality-embossed – integration of the disabled (and are also sick and due to the age of the help the needy) people in the program deal of many people would help contact anxieties and lead to more interactions.

*** Dominated in the ORF, the image of the poor, the fate of the persecuted, the disabled people? This is the reality of life? ***

I see the ORF two tendencies. On the one hand, the usual machinery, the donation motivierbare people in charity, culture einzusäuseln, according to the desire of film - Motto: “you request, we play”.On the other hand, in the care debates of the last two years, the ORF has made an indispensable contribution. Some of the Miss-stands – caused by the current direct interest in help system (the need for care as a private risk) – have been highlighted in many reports and documentaries, and a wide Public is made aware.

Thus to the question (disabled = arm: life and reality?) It is, unfortunately, a cruel reality! I mean, not the disability itself, which is not usually change, and what are the Affected person need to entails learning (). “Compassion” as a feeling is not a solution and, understandably, is perceived by the Bemitleideten as an insult. Respect and Enthinderung but on behalf of us all. The omnipresent and existential deprivation of disabled people (and their relatives), compared to non-disabled people, we could abolish, as a community of solidarity at any time, if it would be a real concern! That is why we need accessibility low broken walls and ramps for You – in our minds.

*** Could change the ORF by a different representation and media presence, the social image of disabled people? ***

I wish the ORF (and the entire media landscape) is an image correction disabled people in the sense of full inclusion, but also of an increased commitment, to put pressure on politicians, which has prevented, so far, persistent and shameful that disabled people are equipped with legal rights, needs, and needs backups just similar development to receive opportunities and chances as non-disabled.

On the way to a company culture of inclusion, from the kolportiertem to the actual lived-in “paradigm shift”, when you weed out the deep-rooted Aussonderungs-weed could and the media should take as a catalyst an important social and political role. I see at least in the educational mission of a public service medium is justified.

In the Press release ^[5]it means: Paralympics: the ORF has to fulfill its public service mission! The extent to which the ORF is already the legal obligation to do so and what is wrong then? Could not concrete on this subject commissioned by a parliamentary Initiative of the disabled speaker, as a group, cross-national concern to help out?

Gerhard Lichtenauer, Austrian Citizens ' Initiative “Home instead of home ^[6]” and Katja's Blog (www.katja.at ^[7])

Original text to FJH21_21 -source: http://www.franzhuainigg.at/cgi-bin/fjh21.cgi?_21 ^[4] (07.09.2008)

THE ORF HAS TO FULFILL ITS PUBLIC SERVICE MISSION !

With a large farewell ceremony of the Olympic games in Beijing. The Olympic flame was extinguished, the world turned, and the Paralympics had not started again. The shadows of the disabled sports is cemented mainly by media disinterest. The ORF sent a single camera crew to fight the race – a second financed by the Paralympics Committee. There is no Olympic Studio and no Live Broadcasts of the ORF.

A pity, because the ORF fails with the opportunity to make his audience on the achievements and successes of the disabled people's attention. It is a change in the angle of view would be – usually because the coverage of disabled people is deficiency-oriented and victim roles is limited. However, the ORF had not here as a public-to meet broadcasters is a social order?

A blind news anchor, a deaf show master or a Reporter in a wheelchair is really so unimaginable? The ORF has a public-legal order. And this must also form are: disabled people as female journalists and equivalent. Only in this way, the image of disabled people in the society can be changed in a sustainable way.

(Read next: The ORF must be barrier-free accessible)

AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

To reports of the ORF is really a minority program, such as sports for the disabled more?

Dominated in the ORF, the image of the poor, the fate of the persecuted, the disabled people? This is the reality of life?

Could change the ORF by a different representation and media presence, the social image of disabled people?

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