Natural Humanists acknowledge that most television and radio services in the world are commercial, so rely on advertising by capitalist businesses to fund all of their broadcasts. As non-materialists some Natural Humanists prefer, wherever possible, not to expose themselves and their families to this commercial brainwashing and temptation.
Some Natural Humanists also feel uncomfortable about radio and television promoting values which go directly against Natural Humanist beliefs, and acknowledge that the more of these things that programmes, films and adverts contain, the more ‘normalised’ and popular they become, including shallow, unloving sex, aggression, violence, selfishness, arrogance, vanity, celebrity-culture, materialism, intolerance, right-wing political ideology, hetero-normative and cis-normative ideas and behaviour, and the normalisation of a non-vegan, consumerist lifestyle.
They also acknowledge that news programmes tend to focus on wars, murders, sexual assaults and other criminal behaviours, on royal and celebrity news, and on team sports, none of which are in line with Natural Humanist beliefs, while hardly ever focussing on positive news stories, or news that concerns, or is of interest to children, or minorities, or which fits in with Natural Humanist values and interests, and with most news being reported from the political viewpoint of the newsreader, the channel, or its advertisers or sponsors.
Consequently, the naturalhumanism.co.uk website hopes to, eventually, provide its own television, radio and news services, with content more in line with Natural Humanist beliefs, and using presenters who are themselves Natural Humanists, who can give a Natural Humanist perspective on all news items and programmes.
Natural Humanists may choose to volunteer to create audio or video files of themselves discussing any subject related to Natural Humanism, from any angle, or reviewing, on a daily or weekly basis, all of the news stories, locally, nationally or internationally, which are relevant to Natural Humanism, or going into detail about their own views or experiences of a Natural Humanist lifestyle, or any aspect of Natural Humanist philosophy, in any serious, fun or entertaining way.
A succession of such short news items, from numerous Natural Humanist contributors, could also be combined to make an online ‘radio programme’, interspersed with music, either chosen by the naturalhumanism.co.uk website’s creators, or by its contributors, or linked to listeners own personal online playlist, so that the programme entertains and is personalised to listeners of all ages and backgrounds, with such programmes potentially focussing on and being ‘presented’ by people of different ‘groups’ of the population, including children, and people of different sexualities, genders and races.
Natural Humanists may also wish to contribute video files of themselves singing, dancing or performing any other sort of entertaining activity, talent, or skill, in order to freely share their own natural talents with as many other human beings, worldwide, as possible, for the common good, while helping to maximise human happiness, or they may contribute videos of them hosting Natural Humanist yoga sessions, for other people to follow at home, all as an act of kindness, rather than for financial gain.
Some Natural Humanists may also choose to share their own fully legal, non-sexual, mutually consensual naturist experiences via the internet, either in online videos, in group video chats, or via Natural Humanist social media groups.
The naturalhumanism.co.uk website also plans to feature a constantly updated online review and guidance service, which allows all Natural Humanists, worldwide, to make informed choices about what to watch and listen to, using online reviews and ratings from other Natural Humanists, and with guidance about anything within a film or broadcast which reinforces or goes against Natural Humanist beliefs, such as violence, materialism and vanity, not necessarily so that they can avoid them, but so that they can prepare themselves for them, and can use them as a learning opportunity for their children, to allow them to think about how such negative behaviours affected other people, and how they could have been avoided.
In short, Natural Humanists acknowledge that film, TV and radio are very effective methods of spreading Natural Humanist beliefs, worldwide, of supporting and entertaining the global Natural Humanist community and of efficiently spreading happiness.