SACMID team visited Banglavision office on February 27, 2023 at 03:00 PM with a view to share Gender Media Monitoring findings, observations, experience and receiving feedback from Banglavision officials which aim to ensure effective representation of women in Bangladeshi news media.
In the discussion, all the participants agreed that gender inequality exist in Bangladeshi media and said that, monitoring of news items and analysis is very crucial to bring-up the gender perspective in media. They suggested that, complete news of prime time need to be monitored. They also agreed to be conscious to include female perspectives as source of news, spokesperson and experts while reporting.
Some Observations of Banglavision Editor: Abdul Hai Siddique, Chief Editor & Head of News, Banglavision shared some thoughts about Gender media monitoring findings of SACMID which are,
- As an individual media, news items are not showing women as sex objects. But some media like advertisement, cinema are showing women as sex objects. News items are trying to be as serious as possible. So these should be mentioned when talking about ‘media are showing women as sex objects.’
- ‘Women as victims’ is a common topic in media. This is not bad. As women are becoming more victims of violence, so their news need to be cover more and more. But violence against women are not coming in the news stories for the failure of media and also for social taboo.
- For a getting a better findings from Gender media monitoring, the entire news should be monitored, Then SACMID team can find the real picture of Gender in media.
From SACMID team Syed Kamrul Hasan, Deputy Director, Saidul Islam, Program Officer (Media Monitoring), Firoz Mahmud, Program Officer (Networking & Advocacy) and from Banglavision officials Dr. Abdul Hai Siddique, Chief Editor & Head of News, Ruhul Amin Rushd, Senior News Editor, Farrukh Ahmmed, Staff Reporter, News & Current Affairs were present in the discussion.