Did The CCRC Make The Right Decision For The Appeal of The Warner Case?

After reading the CCRC documentation of the Warner case we are able to make conclusions as to whether or not we believe the case was treated in the right way by the commission. A section 19 investigation of the case was approved by the CCRC;  all evidence was reassessed. 

During this reassessment, Forensic evidence suggested that the fibres, on the jumper that Mr Warner was wearing on the night in question and left at the Pools home, were indistinguishable from the fibres that were found on the bed sheets found at the house. More forensic evidence suggests that hairs on the bedding, that did not match those of Mrs Pool, had an incomplete DNA profile matching Mr Warner’s. The chances of the DNA being unrelated to Mr Warmer were said to be 1 in 680, overturning assertions that he never went upstairs. Though all items of forensic evidence had all been destroyed before this investigation.

The section 19 investigation found evidence to implicate another suspect of the murder of the pools, Mr Smith, after his fingerprints were found on the front porch. The CCRC requested an investigation into this character which revealed that he was a member of the police force and has a record as a ‘peeping tom’ and was charged for harassment. The investigators highlighted these points because of the methods Mr smith used to go about his doings – he used back windows for entry to houses and described his own actions during his ‘peeping’ activities to be very similar to the description of the man he had seen, in his witness statement on the night of the murder of Mr and Mrs Pool. But the commission still thought it wasn’t possible that anyone other than Mr Warner committed the crime because of the jumper fibres; but there was no connection between Smith and the Pools, which i believe to be suspicious.

In spite of this, the commission identified that Mr Warner took a shirt belonging to Mr Pool, again suggesting he did in fact go upstairs, and had lied in his early statements to the police, so his trustworthiness was already in question, and that there was a fingerprint above the kitchen drawer suggesting where the murder weapon had come from. Mr Knox, a man Mr Warner lived with, gave evidence to suggest Warner was out until after the estimated time of the murders and his behaviour the morning after the murder was said to be suspicious (taking footwear from the night before out of town with him).

I believe the two pieces of forensic evidence used in defence of dropping the case are the most important, though the DNA profile was incomplete, the chances of cross contamination of the bedding and jumper are slim (they were stored by police separately) and suggest to me that Mr wasn’t telling the truth about going upstairs, particularly after lying before. and so I think that the right decision was made by the CCRC in not taking the case to the court of appeal.

Radio News Story Three;

An interview with Chris Pines, Winchester Councillor, about proposals for the River Park Leisure Center. Yet to be edited down for the radio bulletin.

Radio News Story Two Audio;

This ghastly thing called technology has hit Winchesters bus services and I decided to ask a few people and a bus driver (I'm totally going to drive a bus one day) what they though of the new service and potentially use it for one of my radio bulletin stories.



That's possible audio to go along side this news story (even though I realised I forgot to edit some other vox pops in :/);

Winchesters commuters were introduced to a new way of using Blue Star bus service this week.
The key card allows customers to buy pre-paid travel passes, which allow unlimited travel for 7, 30 or 90 day periods, that can be topped up over and over.
The company have introduced the key with reduced prices as an incentive to try the new service and it is hoped, by the Go Ahead Group, that the key will reduce waiting time at stops and help lower their carbon footprint. while at the same time saving the customer money when compared to prices of regular tickets.
We asked a Blue Star driver his views on the success of the Key;

History and context of journalism lecture/reading three;

Karl Marx and the communist manifesto;

Karl Marx believed in the utopia of communism. He said that until his time ‘philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point however is to change it.’

He believed everything you could explain about society by analysing the way economic forces shape social, religious, legal and political processes and that man is a productive animal, creating the environment he inhibits, dominating because of the ability to create tools and co-operate, shaping society and culture as these abilities and technologies develop (technological determinism).

The idea of technological determinism leads onto Marx’s teleological view of history, believing that history is headed somewhere and developing forwards, which was influenced by Darwinism and the theory of evolution.

Through these beliefs, Marx is said to have created an ideal which fuses Hegelian philosophy, British empiricism, revolutionary politics and scientific method. Hegelian in terms of the process of history in the form of the dialectic; the spirit of history seeks self-understanding. History ends when the spirit achieves full self-knowledge. Marx’s is seen again to be influenced by Hegel in his ideas of class struggle being the battle between good and evil (dialectical; the bourgeois = thesis, Proletariat = antithesis and the synthesis of the process being communism). Marx’s revolutionary ideas are identifiable in his similarities with Rousseau, in that property is the cause of class struggle and is what caused us to be civilized. The fact the proletariat are unable to possess property, Marx believed they were ideal for a revolutionary class because they ‘have nothing to lose, but everything to gain.’

And highlights Marx’s concept of alienation of the proletariat; belief of a reality as it has been conditioned, not as it truly is. Class consciousness is the way for the proletariat to truly know themselves and what they are capable of and what Marx believed was the only way to begin the end of bourgeois exploitation through capitalism. 

Communist manifesto;
The first section of the manifesto 'Bourgeois and Proletarian' suggests that class struggle 'sprouted' from the 'ruins' of a feudal society.
He believed there to be a hostile divide in society, one in which the bourgeois were in possession of the proletarian; forming a new kind of oppression and struggle. These two classes were seen by Marx to be directly against each other.

The dialectic of historical materialism;

1. Primitive communism: as in co-operative tribal societies.
2. Slave Society: a development of tribal progression to city-state; Aristocracy is born.
3. Feudalism: aristocrats are the ruling class; merchants evolve into capitalists.
4. Capitalism: capitalists are the ruling class, who create and employ the proletariat.
5. Socialism: workers gain class consciousness, and through proletariat revolution depose the capitalist dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, replacing it in turn with dictatorship of the proletariat* through which the socialization of the means of production can be realized, wealth is distributed evenly, the people work together slowly causing the state to 'wither away'.
6. Commuism: a classless and stateless society. 

Historical materialism for Marx shows that class struggle and desire for high exchange value have given power to the bourgeoisie, gradually, over time and that he believes this to be the reason for historical and social progression to its current state of capitalim. '[The bourgeois]torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors", and has left no other nexus between people than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment".
The ideal state of society is communism and would be the end of the Hegelian idea of a dialectical progression of history.

Marx says the bourgeois ' has resolved personal worth into exchange value,' and have created a false consciousness of the proletariat through politics and religion, undermining and exploiting them further.  He believed that he bourgeoisie could not exist 'without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.' And in doing this, they have succeeded in gathering masses within the population, centralizing the means of production and concentrating property in few hands (of the bourgeois). Creating the Proletariat- 'a class of laborers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labor increases capital.'- who are then exploited and alienated.


Marx believes that drive for the bourgeois to create capital through the exploitation of the proletariat means that the proletariat lose personality and character; they are seen as machines to produce profitable commodities, even though they could be considered commodities themselves. 
'Masses of laborers, crowded into the factory, are organized like soldiers.....Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois state'

Proletariat - a revolutionary class:
Marx believed that the development of industry and the growing need for capital would lead the proletariat into becoming class conscious and, in doing so, will go through many changes during the progression to revolution and gaining the means of production through the overthrowing of bourgeois. 'the proletariat not only increases in number; it becomes concentrated in greater masses, its strength grows, and it feels that strength more.'
Though, for Marx, capitalism was inevitably doomed to collapse because it held flaws within it that would ultimately destroy itself; the proletariat will only speed up the process. Here is a summary of his ideas of the process (drummed into my head at A-level);

- Capitalism becomes highly productive and the surplus produced would be reinvested into strengthening capitalism and making it even more productive. 
- The working class grows and polarisation between the bourgeois and proletarian occurs. 
- Capitalism gradually leads to overproduction and slumps in need for products happens regularly meaning lower wages and mass unemployment. 
- Thus leading to inequality and alienation; class consciousness grows among the working class. 
- Because capitalism is a world wide ideal, countries will being to compete resulting in wars and imperial competition. 
- The class conscious will then begin to revolt because of class consciousness and will eventually bring down the mechanisms of capitalism from within.

Radio Column;

Soo, this is my first attempt at time using the sound booth. It was an experience - three of us spending 15 minutes or so wondering why the microphone and mixer weren't working, to then discover the plug socket was switched on....brains. Then realising there is an echo and I'm sniffling the whole way through; damn having a cold.

Radio; News Story One

Winchester Liberal Democrat MP's reject the new NHS reform bill, believing the changes will have no immediate effect or no effect at all because of recent budget cuts.

A ConservativeHome reporter suggests that going through with the bill is the 'most dangerous path' for Cameron to take, dividing the coalition and pushing away the party's supporters.

The Prime Ministers efforts to change parts of the bill have settled some disagreements in parliament, but are causing conflict elsewhere, with e-petitions appearing and MP’s urging those against the reforms to sign it through social networking sites.

The bill is currently awaiting scrutiny of the House of Lords and will determine Cameron’s

Radio News Writing - short, sharp and straight to the point;

We were told how to write a coherent news story suitable for radio
Grab attention immediately;
- Use a headline.
- identify the main point of the story.

Cut the waffle;
- Don't use ten words where two will do fine.
- Avoid repetition.
- Avoid long words and complicated sentence structure.

Avoid cliches, melodrama and emotive language;

Express yourself clearly;
- complex sentence structure and/or complicated sentence structure can alter the meaning of your story.

Remember your target audience;
- younger- more informal choice of language and structure.
- Older - less conversational; more informative.

Say it out loud;
- Must be fit for purpose -  to be carried by voice alone.

Mechanics;
- Scripts shouldn't be handwritten.
- Should be one and a half line spacing.
- Written on only one side of paper.

When using audio cuts in scripts, they should be written as follows;
NAME:
IN WORDS:
OUT WORDS:
DURATION:

The audio file must have the same name as audio insert name on script.