In this assignment I will be undertaking a rhetoric analysis of the audience of the BBC’s Question Time. I thought about various productions when producing this research question, as there are many different genres of television available to the public today. I decided to look at Question Time, which is a long running BBC debate show, because it is one of if not the most popular debate shows in British Television. I wanted to look into the influence that the show has on its audience, I also will talk more about how this BBC show links into the ideals that the BBC claims it has, primarily the ideal of citizenship. The show itself has a very large target audience that varies in terms of race, gender and age. Question time also has a diverse …show more content…
The director general of the BBC defended the broadcast as he felt that it gave equal prominence to all political parties regardless of how unpopular they may be. This further supported the idea BBC’s ideals of citizenship and the BBC’s remit because it allowed every opinion to be …show more content…
. (McNair, Hibbered, Schlesinger, 2002) These goals are aimed for by producers of shows such as Question Time and view them as catalyst to help further support the healthy functioning of British democracy. These three goals are as follows: • Representation (of the people in the public sphere) • Interrogation (of political elites, for the purpose of enhancing their accountability to the public); • Mobilisation (of the public towards involvement in the political process). The producers of this type of media set their goals in order to test their effectiveness as well as their participation in helping the public share their thoughts and opinions. So we can say that it is a method of rating a show’s ‘quality’. In this case, the goals link into the BBC’s