The BBC News website quotes a Have Your Say (HYS) user on their front page. It’s a great idea, and no doubt part of the BBC’s attempt to make the audience feel interacted with.
But I feel extremely sorry for whatever poor BBCi employee has to rifle through all the HYS posts to find one worthy of such a high accolade. A quick glance over the boards shows that 99.99%* of the content is from right-wing fundamentalists.
Even the lefties who post on HYS are illiberal, choosing not to suggest tolerance to the ‘get-them-out’s and ‘this-would-never-have-happened-under-the-nazis’s but instead to poke fun at their poor grammar and bad spelling.
spEak You’re bRanes is a “blog is dedicated to the dribble-spattered lunacy of BBC Have Your Say.” It’s well worth a look. Most of the time it’s brilliant, but be warned: sometimes it can be as bigoted as the people it seeks to ridicule.
*made up
2 responses so far ↓
Nelson // December 13, 2007 at 10:00 am |
Bigoted???
You gingers are all the same.
lynnroberts // December 13, 2007 at 11:49 am |
I see what you did there. Very clever.