Hello, I'm Jenny Brannan

Name: Jenny Brannan

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I work as a media officer at Mencap. The media team uses newspapers, radio and TV to raise awareness of issues that affect people with a learning disability. I'll be keeping a close eye on the media and blogging about the news.

My recent blog posts

Frankly not funny

I work on the media team and one of our (often difficult) jobs is to try to change attitudes towards people with a learning disability in the media. So it is with a deep sigh that we hear that Frankie Boyle has been up to his old tricks again. On his Channel 4 show he has made some incredibly insensitive, vile and tasteless jokes about Katie...

The spending review in the press

Since the spending review last week there has been 1,045 national articles detailing where budgets will be squeezed and who the winners and losers are – wow! However, hot on its heels was the news that Wayne Rooney was threatening to leave Manchester United, gaining column inches in 677 articles. Hmmm. It has been interesting to watch the...

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