Tuesday 9 January 2007

And now, with the time coming up to eight forty, it's thought for the day.

Institutional blogging must stop.
Whilst the BBC and the Guardian are two of the media institutions I hold dear (well, probably the only two really) their insistance on calling everything on their websites "a blog" to indicate it is an opinion piece is really an abuse of terminology. It's an editorial, it's a column, it seems it's whatever they want it to be. But in truth all they've become is an excuse for nitwits that while away a couple of hours at work by getting in to a slagging match at the end of said "blog".
This is not democracy guys, this is not an expression of your communicative rights. It's, oh what's the point.

1 comments:

ed iglehart said...

There's now a virtual pub as part of the BBC's PM Programme 'blog'.

Just thought you might like to know, as it's called "The Furrowed Brow"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2007/01/the_furrowed_brow.shtml

Drop in for a pint or to leave a trenchant comment or just to scoff.

Sláinte