{"id":4964,"date":"2026-09-30T00:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2026-09-30T00:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:30:34","slug":"neville-bell-says-media-personalities-must-recognise-responsibility-that-comes-with-large-audiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/?p=4964","title":{"rendered":"Neville Bell says media personalities must recognise responsibility that comes with large audiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Jamaican broadcaster Neville Bell has urged podcasters and other media personalities to recognise the responsibility that accompanies having a large audience.<\/p>\n<p>Bell made the comments during an appearance on the No NDA Podcast while offering advice to host RushCam about working in the growing digital media space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take what you do seriously. Realize that you have a responsibility,&#8221; Bell said.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled making a joke on air around the time of a hurricane before immediately following it with serious instructions encouraging listeners to follow official information.<\/p>\n<p>Bell later discovered that at least one listener had remembered the joke while apparently overlooking the warning that followed.<\/p>\n<p>He said the experience changed his approach to broadcasting and taught him that certain subjects should not be treated casually because audiences may take comments from media personalities seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Bell said broadcasters and online personalities can sometimes underestimate their influence or assume their audiences understand when something is intended as humour.<\/p>\n<p>He encouraged content creators to remain bold and authentic while recognising that viewers and listeners may place significant weight on what they say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neville Bell urged media personalities to recognise the influence they can have on audiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamaica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}