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The Media and Social Exclusion: Summary of the Integra Workshop, Dublin April 1999

This article considers how social exclusion is treated by the mainstream media in the Republic of Ireland. It is based on a workshop session held with representatives from Integra projects in the Dublin Writers’ Museum in April 1999. The workshop was run on the assumption that there is an important relationship between measured public opinion about social exclusion, political action or inaction, and the way in which social exclusion is treated by the print and broadcast media. The workshop was led by Eoin Devereux of the Department of Government and Society, University of Limerick who also prepared this article.

Introduction

Any attempt by projects, either individually or collectively, to influence the way in which the media explain issues such as homelessness, drug abuse or lone-parenthood may be seen as having twin and complementary aims - to influence public opinion but also to shape the views and actions of decision-makers both at the policy and political levels. The workshop focused on the many constraints that govern how the mainstream media treat social exclusion. It also considered the practical steps that Integra projects might take in attempting to influence public opinion through using the media.
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