People paid to post Anti BBC messages on this forum?
TheEngineer
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A friend of mine was recently offered a job working for a "media organisation". Part of his job would have been to monitor various bulletin boards and it was "suggested" that they encouraged employees (during work time) to post positive comments about his company and start negative threads about the rivals, in particular the BBC.
Anyone else heard of this?
Anyone else heard of this?
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I have no evidence either way, (how can you prove a negative) but would certainly not be surprised, that is why I tend to take exaggerated and unsubstantiated highly partial claims with great caution.
Certainly not everything is how it seems. I remember the Big Brother forum was suddenly influxed with racist comments and it was traced back to a BNP website.
If people declare an interest that is absolutely fine, it is useful to have their information. the deceit is where the interest is not declared
Public broadcasters like the BBC "belong" to the people. They are both funded and "owned" by ordinary citizens. It is only natural that any missteps committed by public broadcasters generate more negative comments that similar missteps on some commercial channel in which the general public doesn't really hold a stake. This isn't a British phenomenon; it happens throghout Europe and beyond.
If you appreciate the BBC, don't try to silence criticism (as poster #3 suggested), even when it's unfair, because doing that is fundmentally counterproductive (besides, people who pay the license fee certainly have the right to complain). Instead, point out what the BBC does well -- and there's plenty of this to help make your case.
The BBC are likely to post as they are funded by the TV tax that makes criminals out of the poor, so have no need to get a return on investment
But why would this 'company' want to bother? Whats the benifit - in cash terms - for it to do so?
Most threads are about the TV tax, left wing bias and waste of money; Private companies will not spend money on these issues.
In fact topic starter 'discussion' posts like yours that seek to undermine discussion itself rather than make a point about an organisation are a common tool of professional posters.
Talk about paranoia.
How do we know you are not a BBC plant?
Highly unlikely.
I think it highly likely, that companies would use high-impact forums like DigitalSpy to promote themselves. I'm certain that a recent thread complaining about the non-stop promotion of a programme, that no-one had heard of, was a piece of marketing.
To be honest it would start to explain some things. Recently there has been a rather worrying tendency for a small number of posters to take a story and spin it as a positive for the company they support and negative for any rivals.
Some of this spinning is so blatant and unbelievable that I really have trouble believing they are just "fan-boys".
So many people complain about the BBC not only on message boards but in papers and on radio and TV you wouldn't need to pay them. The BBC itself runs several programmes where it takes the flak:eek:
Iain
The BBC has an internal intranet forum (talk.gateway) where staff `have a go` at `the BBC` too.
And praise it when praise is due.
Can't think of many (any?) other big companies that allows it staff to abuse the managment.
You can spot all the posts and threads that are clearly made by people working for broadcasters or production companies a mile off.
great, can you tell me how please? i want to avoid them.
You're overpaid.
With my current success rate i'll soon be owing them money :eek:
BBC news has just reported that an outbreak of bubonic plague has started. Huw Edwards says bubonic plague is great :eek:
And on the flip side there's the "anti" brigade who don't even watch TV but get all their "information" from the Daily Mail!