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went on a wesbite and found the transcript to chris rogers speech
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Jubilee Campaign US website
Testimony of Chris Rogers, ITN November 8, 2005 Members of Congress, ladies and gentlemen: When I was sixteen years old I presented a series for BBC television aimed at children my age. The series looked in depth at the lives of teenagers around the world. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I spent many days filming with some of the city’s 10,000 street children, who steal, beg and sniff glue to get by for another day. Their plight shocked me just as it was intended to shock a young British audience. From that moment on I decided to dedicate much of my carrier as a journalist to highlighting the plight of the youngest of the poor, and so my relationship with the Jubilee Campaign began. I have filmed children sleeping in the sewers of Bucharest, Romania, and found an eight-year-old girl working for rice by chipping rock boulders in a stone quarry in Katmandu, Nepal. She had maggots seeping from her leg; her flesh was rotting from a wound caused by a rock which had fallen on her. These images I have reported have never failed to shock the audience I brought them to, and yet nothing seems to change. Millions of children continue to suffer. Five months ago I was on the Internet, researching a story I wanted to do on the gun culture of Brazil's street children, but the amazing Google took me to a web site created by a Catholic missionary in the Philippines. There I saw a photo of five-year-old Rose, one hand clinging to the bar of a prison cell, the other clinging to a can of Coke. Sitting behind her in the crowded cell were adult convicts and other children who had been rounded up by the police that night. On his website Father Shay Cullen explained that his only weapon against the imprisonment of children was his camera. He hoped this photo would inspire an end to this breach of children’s rights. With the help of Jubilee, I made contact with Shay in the hope that I could tell Rose's story. What I didn't realize was that there were 4,000 other children like her, all held in overcrowded adult jails, accused of petty crimes, some guilty of nothing, unwanted and homeless. This was a bigger story than I first thought—one that had not been told, one that would be difficult to tell—but Shay Cullen, it seemed, had faith in me. We decided the only way I could possibly obtain the images I needed was to go undercover and pose as a member of Shay's team—a group that tirelessly tours the country’s prisons helping child prisoners. You will see the results of this undercover investigation in a moment and they will shock and appall you. It's just after 2 p.m. in Washington. What happens at 2 p.m. in a Manila jail? In Novatas Prison there are around forty children standing in a cell with adults right now, their hands tightly gripping the cell door bars. The metal, heated by the intense sun, will be scorching their palms and fingers. They have to cling to something, as they are so weak from hunger and thirst. They would lie on the hot floor but there isn't any room; they have to stand! Just outside the cell there is a television set hung on the wall, and sometimes the sexual images of women in films and commercials become too much for the sexually deprived adult inmates. The child prisoners know that soon they will have to have sex with one of the adult men yet again, or else face a beating. Thirteen-year-old Hussain has been there four months after being accused of stealing a necklace. He is soaking wet; the temperature is as hot as a heated oven. He feels sick from the neverending stench of body odor and urine. At this time of day sewage water starts to bubble out of the drains
on the floor, and in about ten minutes Hussain will have to find the energy to climb the prison bars to escape the filthy water that is already up to his ankles. The local sewage system can not cope with the monsoon rains. If he isn't sexually abused today he will definitely be beaten until he has swept the floors and dried the furniture when the water retreats. In another jail we found ten-year-old Karim, accused of stealing flip-flops. At first, the prison warden wouldn't let us into the open cell where Karim was being held; even he didn't want to go in there. He said “our lives would be at risk” because Karim was sharing the cell with rapists, murders and alleged terrorists. In another city jail we discovered 45 young boys sharing a cell with what appeared to be two adult men and a woman. Some of the boys looked traumatized, sitting in silence and staring into the air, lifeless, perhaps disturbed. One of them pointed to the woman and said to me, “He is dangerous.” I said, “He? Don't you mean she?” “No, he,” the boy replied. The transvestite giggled as he told us he had a “special relationship” with the boys. One of the men dragged a young boy out of a wooden box attached to the wall. These are known as privacy boxes; in other words, they are used for sexual privacy. Today those boys are still there, sharing their cell with sexual offenders. The prison insists that it is an important part of a sexual offender’s rehabilitation to have responsibility over minors. * * * When I brought these images, these stories, this suffering to British viewers, the ITV News switchboard was jammed. 8,000 viewers called in the space of one hour, all wanting to express their horror and shock at what they had seen. They offered money; some even offered to adopt some child prisoners, but it isn't enough. Not even Father Shay and his organization can save every single child prisoner. 20,000 are thrown behind bars in the Philippines every year; it's just too many to save. All the countries that lock up children in adult jails are signatories of international treaties on children’s rights. This is the only thing that can save every child prisoner, but it's not worth the paper it is written on until politicians and organizations such as the UN act by imposing and enforcing such laws. If a country says it can’t afford to abide by the law, give them the money. Shortly after my reports were broadcast, I received a letter from the chief executive of ITV News. It said, “It is not our jobs as journalists to change the world, but it is our job to expose events that the world might not otherwise have seen. If that inspires change then it is a glorious side effect. I truly believe your work is doing just that.” I never believed that was possible until I was told of the reaction of ITV News viewers and I was invited to speak here today. Please don't let me down. More importantly, don't let the world’s one million child prisoners down. Their lives are in your hands.
Testimony of Chris Rogers, ITN November 8, 2005 Members of Congress, ladies and gentlemen: When I was sixteen years old I presented a series for BBC television aimed at children my age. The series looked in depth at the lives of teenagers around the world. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I spent many days filming with some of the city’s 10,000 street children, who steal, beg and sniff glue to get by for another day. Their plight shocked me just as it was intended to shock a young British audience. From that moment on I decided to dedicate much of my carrier as a journalist to highlighting the plight of the youngest of the poor, and so my relationship with the Jubilee Campaign began. I have filmed children sleeping in the sewers of Bucharest, Romania, and found an eight-year-old girl working for rice by chipping rock boulders in a stone quarry in Katmandu, Nepal. She had maggots seeping from her leg; her flesh was rotting from a wound caused by a rock which had fallen on her. These images I have reported have never failed to shock the audience I brought them to, and yet nothing seems to change. Millions of children continue to suffer. Five months ago I was on the Internet, researching a story I wanted to do on the gun culture of Brazil's street children, but the amazing Google took me to a web site created by a Catholic missionary in the Philippines. There I saw a photo of five-year-old Rose, one hand clinging to the bar of a prison cell, the other clinging to a can of Coke. Sitting behind her in the crowded cell were adult convicts and other children who had been rounded up by the police that night. On his website Father Shay Cullen explained that his only weapon against the imprisonment of children was his camera. He hoped this photo would inspire an end to this breach of children’s rights. With the help of Jubilee, I made contact with Shay in the hope that I could tell Rose's story. What I didn't realize was that there were 4,000 other children like her, all held in overcrowded adult jails, accused of petty crimes, some guilty of nothing, unwanted and homeless. This was a bigger story than I first thought—one that had not been told, one that would be difficult to tell—but Shay Cullen, it seemed, had faith in me. We decided the only way I could possibly obtain the images I needed was to go undercover and pose as a member of Shay's team—a group that tirelessly tours the country’s prisons helping child prisoners. You will see the results of this undercover investigation in a moment and they will shock and appall you. It's just after 2 p.m. in Washington. What happens at 2 p.m. in a Manila jail? In Novatas Prison there are around forty children standing in a cell with adults right now, their hands tightly gripping the cell door bars. The metal, heated by the intense sun, will be scorching their palms and fingers. They have to cling to something, as they are so weak from hunger and thirst. They would lie on the hot floor but there isn't any room; they have to stand! Just outside the cell there is a television set hung on the wall, and sometimes the sexual images of women in films and commercials become too much for the sexually deprived adult inmates. The child prisoners know that soon they will have to have sex with one of the adult men yet again, or else face a beating. Thirteen-year-old Hussain has been there four months after being accused of stealing a necklace. He is soaking wet; the temperature is as hot as a heated oven. He feels sick from the neverending stench of body odor and urine. At this time of day sewage water starts to bubble out of the drains
on the floor, and in about ten minutes Hussain will have to find the energy to climb the prison bars to escape the filthy water that is already up to his ankles. The local sewage system can not cope with the monsoon rains. If he isn't sexually abused today he will definitely be beaten until he has swept the floors and dried the furniture when the water retreats. In another jail we found ten-year-old Karim, accused of stealing flip-flops. At first, the prison warden wouldn't let us into the open cell where Karim was being held; even he didn't want to go in there. He said “our lives would be at risk” because Karim was sharing the cell with rapists, murders and alleged terrorists. In another city jail we discovered 45 young boys sharing a cell with what appeared to be two adult men and a woman. Some of the boys looked traumatized, sitting in silence and staring into the air, lifeless, perhaps disturbed. One of them pointed to the woman and said to me, “He is dangerous.” I said, “He? Don't you mean she?” “No, he,” the boy replied. The transvestite giggled as he told us he had a “special relationship” with the boys. One of the men dragged a young boy out of a wooden box attached to the wall. These are known as privacy boxes; in other words, they are used for sexual privacy. Today those boys are still there, sharing their cell with sexual offenders. The prison insists that it is an important part of a sexual offender’s rehabilitation to have responsibility over minors. * * * When I brought these images, these stories, this suffering to British viewers, the ITV News switchboard was jammed. 8,000 viewers called in the space of one hour, all wanting to express their horror and shock at what they had seen. They offered money; some even offered to adopt some child prisoners, but it isn't enough. Not even Father Shay and his organization can save every single child prisoner. 20,000 are thrown behind bars in the Philippines every year; it's just too many to save. All the countries that lock up children in adult jails are signatories of international treaties on children’s rights. This is the only thing that can save every child prisoner, but it's not worth the paper it is written on until politicians and organizations such as the UN act by imposing and enforcing such laws. If a country says it can’t afford to abide by the law, give them the money. Shortly after my reports were broadcast, I received a letter from the chief executive of ITV News. It said, “It is not our jobs as journalists to change the world, but it is our job to expose events that the world might not otherwise have seen. If that inspires change then it is a glorious side effect. I truly believe your work is doing just that.” I never believed that was possible until I was told of the reaction of ITV News viewers and I was invited to speak here today. Please don't let me down. More importantly, don't let the world’s one million child prisoners down. Their lives are in your hands.
NE
And if they'd had any sense they might have just sent him down to the local bar instead.
Why try to fake something you can do so easily?
Agreed, Margaret Gilmore was in a bar for the Six O'Clock News with graphics super-imposed on top of a real pint of beer - looked quite effective.
Adam posted:
Harvey posted:
Very good graphics tonight on the Evening News with mark austin in a pub, almost looks real, like him leaning on the bar...
And if they'd had any sense they might have just sent him down to the local bar instead.
Why try to fake something you can do so easily?
Agreed, Margaret Gilmore was in a bar for the Six O'Clock News with graphics super-imposed on top of a real pint of beer - looked quite effective.
AN
And if they'd had any sense they might have just sent him down to the local bar instead.
Why try to fake something you can do so easily?
Agreed, Margaret Gilmore was in a bar for the Six O'Clock News with graphics super-imposed on top of a real pint of beer - looked quite effective.
Why send someone down the pub when you can mock it up in the studio
Andrew
Founding member
Newsreader posted:
Adam posted:
Harvey posted:
Very good graphics tonight on the Evening News with mark austin in a pub, almost looks real, like him leaning on the bar...
And if they'd had any sense they might have just sent him down to the local bar instead.
Why try to fake something you can do so easily?
Agreed, Margaret Gilmore was in a bar for the Six O'Clock News with graphics super-imposed on top of a real pint of beer - looked quite effective.
Why send someone down the pub when you can mock it up in the studio
IS
And if they'd had any sense they might have just sent him down to the local bar instead.
Why try to fake something you can do so easily?
Agreed, Margaret Gilmore was in a bar for the Six O'Clock News with graphics super-imposed on top of a real pint of beer - looked quite effective.
Why send someone down the pub when you can mock it up in the studio
It's called lazy journalism. I mean why interview someone when you can just do a dry read? Why bother with the pictures when you can just have a shot of the presenter?
Admitedly I detest TV news for the fact they feel the *NEED* to go down a pub just to make it clear what they're talking about...but either bother doing it or don't do it at all.
I prefer radio me!
Isonstine
Founding member
Andrew posted:
Newsreader posted:
Adam posted:
Harvey posted:
Very good graphics tonight on the Evening News with mark austin in a pub, almost looks real, like him leaning on the bar...
And if they'd had any sense they might have just sent him down to the local bar instead.
Why try to fake something you can do so easily?
Agreed, Margaret Gilmore was in a bar for the Six O'Clock News with graphics super-imposed on top of a real pint of beer - looked quite effective.
Why send someone down the pub when you can mock it up in the studio
It's called lazy journalism. I mean why interview someone when you can just do a dry read? Why bother with the pictures when you can just have a shot of the presenter?
Admitedly I detest TV news for the fact they feel the *NEED* to go down a pub just to make it clear what they're talking about...but either bother doing it or don't do it at all.
I prefer radio me!
LO
Private Eye says that the leaked document re. the closure of ITVNC also referred to another 20 job losses elsewhere in ITV News.
It also reveals that Robert Moore is ITV's best paid foreign correspondent and is moving to the Brussels bureau next year.
I think John Ray will get the Washington job.
It also reveals that Robert Moore is ITV's best paid foreign correspondent and is moving to the Brussels bureau next year.
I think John Ray will get the Washington job.