User-Generated Content From BBC.co.uk In The Press And In The News
Today I was pleased to see two different examples of user-generated content from the BBC website being reported.
In her G2 column Radio 3 presenter Penny Gore talked about the problems of skipping CDs, and mentioned that:
Particular discs will offend the sensibilities of our normally trusty CD players for no fathomable reason, leading to awkward moments for the presenter. On occasion a cluster of mysterious glitches, skips, and outright fallings-off-air, leading to dark speculation on the Radio 3 messageboard that I may have dropped my breakfast marmalade on the CDs and gummed up the mechanisms.
Meanwhile BBC News were reporting that the BBC had issued an apology about a programme called "Bring Your Husband to Heel", quoting directly from the Points of View messageboard:
Viewers complained to the BBC by telephone and on the Points of View website, with one viewer calling it "insulting to men and insulting the intelligence of women".
Another called the programme "sexist, degrading, insulting drivel".
The BBC News article goes on to report that:
The premise of the show, produced by independent firm Talkback, sees Clayton tackle stereotypical "husband problems" such as computer addiction and failing to do chores.
Thankfully Mrs Currybetdotnet hasn't seen the programme ;-)
Posted by Martin Belam, August 31, 2005
Read the latest posts about: BBC, Media
The views expressed on currybetdotnet are my own, and do not reflect the views of Guardian News and Media Limited, or any current or former clients or employers. Read my blogging principles
Get free updates via RSS
Get free updates by email
Follow Martin Belam on Twitter
Comments are closed across the site whilst I take a break. You can still contact me directly.
Search this site
Talks & presentations
"Journalism in the digital age"
I'll be appearing on a panel with Sarah Hartley and Iain Hepburn at the Edinburgh International Science Festival on Sunday April 11th. More details...
Posts of the moment
Day of the Triffids
If everyone suddenly went blind, how long would the Internet survive, and could you still publish news on it?
With professionals of this quality, who needs 'citizen journalist' enemies?
It is hard to argue that ethics and quality set the 'professional journalist' apart from the amateur blogger, if the 'professional' keeps publishing articles so wrong that they have to be deleted.
Read more about...
- The future of news
- IA and UX events
- Local and hyperlocal news
- Martin Belam talks and presentations
- Media policy and regulation
- New media best practice
- Newspaper website design
- Notes and quotes from media and web events
- 'Old' media relationship with 'new' media
- Site search management and design
- Working at the BBC (2000 - 2005)
- Working at The Guardian (2008 - now)
Also on the site
or any current or former employers or clients.
Contact: martin dot belam at currybet dot net. © Martin Belam where appropriate.
Powered by Movable Type. Hosted by Bytemark. Manufactured in Great Britain.
2 comments so far
Obviously Talkback won't be in a hurry to do a similar programme where they harrang my other half for her lack of bathroom cleaning.
It's a good job one of us likes to be tidy.
I don't know, there might be a market for it.
They could have a very emotive scene where I tell my wife how shocked I am that she hasn't checked my bloglines subscriptions and updated currybetdotnet this weekend.
Nah, maybe not.