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February 15, 2007

When the BBC hits the blogosphere (or should that be the other way round?)

The BBC's Profile programme recently ran a show about the political blogger 'Guido Fawkes'. The show was broadly positive, but the BBC's Nick Robinson was critical about the style and accuracy of the blog.

This appears to have caused something of a collision between 'old' and 'new'. Fawkes posted a blog entry criticising Robinson - nothing much wrong with the blog entry (Robinson did seem to be looking at the 'reliability' of the beeb through rose-tinted spectacles), but it's the comments that are really telling. People really are getting the knives out for Robinson. Here's a nice example (edited a bit for language) - on the extreme end, and not a representative sample, but it made me smile:

I cant tell you how much I hate this slap headed cock! Filter what you f*ckwit? Guido is what Guido is, unlike you he has had the foresight to understand that there is gap in the market for the truth not a load of patronising lies and bollocks regurgitated by some twat. Oddly enough most people actually recognise bullshit when they are having it fed to them, that is why some of us visit this blog and ignore the likes of you. Slaphead, the days when tossers like you get to pick up a fat pay cheque for spewing propaganda are numbered. I hope you die of starvation. Now I am going to devote some time to finding out some of your guilty secrets, then publish them. Filter that you c***!

It seems like I've spent too much of my life reading dry academic articles about media filters. It's certainly nice to see different types of bias and filter - and their use in 'new' and 'old' media - generating a more sharper, more passionate response: flaming about media filters has a certain, definite appeal.

Posted by jon_mendel at February 15, 2007 12:29 AM

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