are the bbc censoring alterantive views
irate reader | 31.03.2002 12:00
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BBC Talking point censorship
31.03.2002 13:21
More worrying is the trend that on contentious issues the BBCs idea of balance is to allow incoherent rants that counter the status quo, but any comments that make a coherent convincing case for change, particular to the corporate or political status quo, will be censored.
Richard Pluck
e-mail: richard.pluck@btinternet.com
absolutely old boy
31.03.2002 13:49
total shite. At one stage of the game I tried to add comments. Most of them critical, but without swearing or getting heavy in anyway. Never once did one of my comments get added to the discussion. if you read through the comments you find that the whole thing is stage managed for "straights" who have probably never been anywhere and witnessed the suffering caused by American foriegn policy for example. The open discussions on the BBC are pathetic and completely rigged / Censored. The commnets could be compared to the letters written into DLT's on the world service... CRAP...
Jockey
No Sir Prize !
31.03.2002 14:34
But this is why initiatives like IMC are so important
hoo nose hoo
lets target BBC offices for Mayday protest
31.03.2002 19:02
Lets just get out there and do the protest at their HQ. Send it straight back down their throats. Cut out the middleman. Everything that happens in the media gets amplified, so lets make the media the centre of our protest.
They are a big reason why nothing changes, their cover up is a big part of the reason why people don't think that change is possible. Target the media!
- Oh and on the Queen Mother. She just did nothing for years and years, was a big status symbol for the status quo. Lets grow up and abolish the monarchy!!!
caserio
if the talking point's "why we loved...
01.04.2002 01:17
if you want to post some stuff on the bbc's website, they have a "great debates" section with message boards. these are moderated but there is a load of (serious) anti-monarchy (and pro-monarchy) (see: it's a debate!) stuff there.
e.g. at http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?state=view&board=greatdebate.frontpage
otherwise there are message boards for all of the radio stations etc where lots of people are slagging off the bbc for pulling all music content off radio 1 and 6music etc and making it all bland.
bob moran
e-mail: bobmoran287@yahoo.com