Originally Posted by Doghouse Riley:
“Oh dear!
So the SCD board would have remained if there'd only been "light and fluffy comments?"
It's a pathetic excuse by the BBC.
They just "won't be criticised."
The "Points of View" programme is a classic example of their "need to control."
They like to say that they're fair about the inclusion of viewers' comments and in their way they are.
They include an equal quantity of letters of "effusive praise and mild criticism."
Blogs give them complete control, they only include the messages they choose.
Of course the SCD board had to go, rather than one of the six for "The Archers"
The media don't need the messageboards to manufacture anything, they can do that quite well by themselves.”
I think you've misunderstood the point I was making ...
I never said the BBC SCD board would have remained if the comments were light and fluffy. I said the BBC is scaling back ALL its online activities under pressure from the government (who, in turn, are under pressure from the Murdochs).
The Murdoch argument is the BBC should not do anything the private sector can provide. As the BBC itself says, if you want to comment on Strictly, you can easily post on any of the websites it mentions. It's not what the BBC FMs said that got the MBs shut down - it's the BBC trying to appease the government. That's why it's providing exclusive online content - that the likes of DS can't - and scaling back on what others can, and do offer.
I have no idea about how the blogs are policed, but the decision to shut down the MBs is nothing whatsoever to do with any desire to silence the BBC's critics. Indeed, the BBC is taking the critics' arguments and applying them to itself ...
And yes, the media - especially the anti-BBC media -
DO need the MBs to manufacture 'stories'. The Daily Heil and the Telegraph repeatedly cherry-pick quotes from the BBC MBs/blogs to try and create more distorted coverage of how the Corporation isn't serving Licence Fee-payers, etc. (

:yawn

. And if the new blog is being censored, how come it included the ridiculous allegation from Anton fans (

) that him being paired with Ann is punishment for 'P***-gate' last year (as then reported in the Telegraph -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...ke-fans.html)? The lunatic theories are still there - blog or MB ...