press attention- just like busses

Isn't it funny how you try to get some attention from someone and just when you think no one is listening you find out that they are. Last week we managed to get 2 stories in the media. The first was an article about this very blogging project and appears in Learnign Disability Practice. the second was a story about our photography competition and appeared in our local paper the Coventry Telegraph.
We also had some more good news today, BBC Coventry and Warwickshire are willing to give us some live interview slots during learning disability week June 15th-22nd; which is great for our planned positive image campaign running from now until learning disability week.
Now how do we get to appear on TV? we had a practice run last week when the team visited BBC Birmingham at the MAilbox, where we got the chance to do weather forecasts and read the news. But it would be great for the team to do it for real- any ideas?

Does the media treat people with learning disabilities with respect?

we want to know what you think about how the media shows people with learning disabilities-

is it with respect?

do you see people with learning disabilities on TV or in the papers enough?

should there be more actors with learning disabilities in soaps and dramas?

is it OK for actors to(act) pretend to have learning disabilities like Dustin Hoffman in Rainman?

What do you think of the language used by the media?

If you have anything to say about this why not do our quick survey?