Past Present & Future

why hasnt the BBC got any blogs?

why indeed? what they seem to encourage on the bbc website are these “Have your say” forums - at the end of a news article - which really seems to be aimed at encouraging the most right-wing, dictatorial and incredibly prejudiced fuck-wits of the world to write in. Now i may be wrong of course, and they just happen to publish whatever anyone writes in - but its not as simple as that - as its moderated - and i’ve tried soo many times to get a comment in - but failed apart from one time. So obviously, whoever the moderator is - decides. fine - but they still jolly well ought to have some proper blogs - like the Guardian does - lots of lovely blogs - where we can all come along and say what we think - and it would be easier to see actually are all the people who comment on those forums a bunch of right-wing nutters or if its just the moderators who like to spice up the reading with a lot of invective.

and if the BBC has got some blogs - well they need to then highlight them clearly to us poor people. i’ve just been searching and searching and all i can find is other people saying much the same thing. now the only thing i’ve just found is something called Ouch! which is part of the BBC site - and has a weblog as part of it. thats great - and they’re looking for guest bloggers - good - but what about BBC news blogs - surely they’d be really popular. just think about the kind of raging debates ( and no doubt some flame wars..he heh) we could have with these psychos that live in the ‘have your say’ forums.

this gets even better. perseverance pays off - found out about the Comedy Blog - but it takes ages to see if they let us post comments or not ( on first sight it appears not to be the case) but again rooting around, i found a page where it says - hey send us your comments - but! it looks unfortunately very much like where they say on those forums - send us your comments and we’ll publish the best - what the fuck is this - some kind of writing competition??? –> ” Thank you for your comments. The BBC reserves the right to modify any messages before appearing on this web page.” not very friendly is it?

i think the BBC needs to wake up and stop thinking old broadcast media and fully embrace the interactive age they go on about. mind you, im not anti-bbc or anything ( if you might think that from the tone of my comments!) its just frustrating when they insist on this old-fashioned monolithic organization -type stuff.

wake up