Raise your hand!
Edit: I found this unpublished post from the 10th June 2020, I just thought it would be nice to publish it now as I kinda forgot to post it 3 years ago 😅
In media cubs, we have created a campaign called 'Raise Your Hand'. Raise your hand campaign aims at children aged 7-11 to give them a voice in the media. Everyone else has given their views and kids have not been asked. At my school, Big Boss (media cubs leader) came and she showed us many interesting things. She also told us to write down questions that we would like to ask the Prime Minister. One of the interesting things she showed us was something journalists use when they want to jot down something quickly, shorthand. Shorthand may just look like a bunch of squiggles but it is a written language that journalists study and understand.
A few weeks later, Jack, Sammy and I got to interview Andy Burnham (the mayor of Manchester). He seemed very honest with answers. If you want to take a look at the press conference, follow the link below.
Mr Burnham is a politician, a politician who kindly used his time to be interviewed by three kids running a campaign for kids. He was not the type of politician who thinks highly of himself, he is very thoughtful and considerate for others.
A week or two later, Granada TV came to our school to interview us to put on ITV news. I was going to be on TV!!! For the whole morning, we were interviewed and they were taking videos of us setting up and doing what we would normally do in the newsroom. I was the camera operator, Sammy was the presenter and Jack was the director. When they were interviewing us, they asked questions like; what is 'Raise Your Hand' all about? or Why do you want to get involved? Big Boss has already asked sent some of our questions to Downing Street and she has also asked is we can interview Boris Johnson; he said no. Granada TV also asked us how we felt about Mr Johnson refusing to answer our questions. It was really fun. I got to examine the enormous camera: the camera itself was 15 grand and the lens was 15 grand as well. This meant that there was a 30 grand camera in the room. If you are interested to see me on TV, follow the link below to watch it.
Stay tuned!
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