For this section of the essay I will describe and explain the balance the BBC needs to present in their broadcasting to be impartial towards their audience. For an example of this I will use an episode of BBC's 'People Like Us'. This episode subject is about young working class/under working class families who live a deprived suburb of Birmingham called Chelmsley Wood.
"People like us" is a human interest documentary. To be impartial the BBC gives the audience different stories and perspectives such as, The young actor who wants to lose weight, The teenage who works in a chip shop, but dreams of being a hollywood actor and the young mum who is looking for a new home for her and her child. The show presents the positives and negatives of the people who live in Chelmsley Wood, this is to change perspectives that the public make about the under working class community. For example in the documentary the 'young mum' is first presented as being loud and irresponsible, but is later shown as being caring and nurturing towards her child. The actor could have been represented as being lazy and greedy because of his weight, instead is shown as being kind and ambitious, in the documentary he claims that he will "take his family out for a meal". This documentary uses comedic elements to balance the heavy subject matter.
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