As a publicity officer, I am responsible for getting maximum exposurefor my charity and provoking debate in the wider media.
I get around 10 requests a week for access to problem families or thosewith particular challenges. Some of this is for news desks; some forreality TV and other endeavours. I have to decide if it is in the bestinterests of the family. I turn down around 90 per cent but, if I feelthe issue is worthy, I ask a family if they want to take part and makeit clear they can refuse.
An example is a caller who wanted to interview a working father whowished to go part-time to spend more time with his family. I felt thiswas a worthy issue so I contacted a man we were supporting who agreed totalk. However, I refused a caller who wanted to talk to a teenagetearaway, and another who was working on a programme about parentingproblem toddlers as I felt it could be exploitative.
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