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BBC Your News service should be a hit given the success of other bottom-fed services

In a new way of allowing viewers to participate with the news organization, BBC has launched a news service that features only user-generated material. Your News, the new service that recently started a pilot run, features stories and photos that Internet and TV viewers find most interesting. For now, the program will air weekly and will include a section that allows readers to e-mail questions for reporters. “Your News will make use of the huge range of material being sent to the BBC by the public, some of which has already provided real newsgathering value,” said Kevin Bakhurst, controller of BBC News 24.

The BBC News web site reportedly receives around 10,000 e-mails per day from readers who have story recommendations, comments and pictures. For example, here is “Your Pictures: Frightening Fridges.”

The availability of the Internet has helped evolve the way consumers get their content – in fact, the Internet has been hurting newspaper circulation. Major newspaper publishers have had to adapt by offering services such as news sent to PDAs, cell phones, e-mail inboxes, etc. Allowing users to submit stories and images that may be published on the web site is an innovative method to ensure readers continue to participate.

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Only two things frighten me...
By therealnickdanger on 11/30/2006 3:29:31 PM , Rating: 5
... and one of them is nuclear war.

IMHO, the only thing worse than a news service feeding its populace misinformed stories is a misinformed populace generating its own. It would be nice if there was some method to establish credibility back to the talking heads of our time. Fewer editorials and more fact-checking would be a good start. This move by the BBC... not a good idea.




RE: Only two things frighten me...
By borowki on 11/30/2006 3:59:56 PM , Rating: 1
This is going to get ugly. The discussion threads that accommodate BBC articles are full of anti-American, anti-Semitic bile. Now that's going to be elevate to the status of actual news. Radical islamists are going to have a field day.


RE: Only two things frighten me...
By HaZaRd2K6 on 11/30/2006 4:57:57 PM , Rating: 3
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The discussion threads that accommodate BBC articles are full of anti-American, anti-Semitic bile. ... Radical islamists are going to have a field day.


That's a fairly racist and ill-thought-out thing to say. The discussion threads that accommodate BBC articles are written by people all over the world, including Americans, and not just "Radical islamists". A word to the not-so-wise: read up on some BBC articles first before saying that they're all full of anti-American, anti-Semitic "bile". There's a reason there are anti-American articles on the Internet, and you're one of them.


RE: Only two things frighten me...
By therealnickdanger on 12/1/2006 11:06:15 AM , Rating: 2
quote:
That's a fairly racist and ill-thought-out thing to say.

Speaking of "ill-thought-out"... What race did he mention? Anyway, he's correct, WWIII is a battle of information as much as it is a battle on the ground. When mainstream press will bend over backward for interviews with horribly toxic individuals like Iran's AhmadiNejad (who frequently and publically calls for the destruction of Israel, Europe, and America) and Venezuela's Chavez and then give up Allied military secrets in the evening post, something is royally f***** up.

People think that they know what FUD is... just wait.


RE: Only two things frighten me...
By alcalde on 12/1/2006 8:28:09 PM , Rating: 2
We're fighting WWIII? I must have missed that story. And Iran's president has never called for the destruction of Israel, Europe, or America (not counting the one mistranslation about Israel and its post-war borders). The U.S. and Israel, however, are the ones making threats to Iran.

"People think that they know what FUD is... just wait." Wait until they read your post.


RE: Only two things frighten me...
By Hector on 12/1/2006 8:30:01 AM , Rating: 1
"This is going to get ugly. The discussion threads that accommodate BBC articles are full of anti-American, anti-Semitic bile. Now that's going to be elevate to the status of actual news. Radical islamists are going to have a field day."

I don't see how that would be any different from the anti-Israeli, anti-American, pro-islamic output from the regular BBC "News".

I'm English and annoyed at being forced to pay for a service that I do not use due to its poilitical and cultural biases.


By crystal clear on 12/1/2006 8:37:39 AM , Rating: 2
CHEQUE BOOK JOURNALISM is the name of the game.


RE: Only two things frighten me...
By jskirwin on 12/1/2006 11:23:08 AM , Rating: 1
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I don't see how that would be any different from the anti-Israeli, anti-American, pro-islamic output from the regular BBC "News".


Excellent point.


RE: Only two things frighten me...
By alcalde on 12/1/2006 8:34:56 PM , Rating: 2
It doesn't have political and cultural biases. The word "bias" has come to be redefined as "anything you don't agree with". I routinely see people describing the positions of those who disagree with them as "biased". The unspoken statement in this is that there are 1) people who agree with you, and 2) people who are too biased to agree with you.

This goes on in sports all the time. It's called "working the ref". One side accuses the referee of bias about every ten seconds. Eventually, the referee becomes so sensitive to the continual charges that they begin to side towards the side making the accusations in order to avoid the charges and eliminate any perceived "bias" that doesn't really exist. What you're really after is a British version of America's Fox News.


um
By EBH on 12/1/2006 2:28:08 PM , Rating: 2
this is just a "you tube" clone

and i dont see any trouble with what gets posted on "you tube"

so yeh um its not a big deal imo




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