Post by Feta on Aug 6, 2012 22:58:57 GMT -5
From Twitter:
BBC Feedbackþ@BBCR4Feedback
@trollhunterx We would certainly like more of both - they are our reasons for existing.
Well, here's the thing about Twitter... you won't get much in the way of criticism through that medium because a critique requires details. People can get away with 'Yr show wz gr8!!', it seems, but 'Yr show wz carp!!' invariably leads to calls for 'a bit more precision' by the self-appointed sentinels of BBC Online. Hang around the 'Points of View' message board for a few days and you'll see what I mean.
So for detailed criticism, 'Feedback' has to rely on email, letters and possibly phone calls. It's probably not a coincidence that these are all means of communication that don't invite a public discussion, or that the BBC has culled all of the Radio 4 boards, and any attempt to discuss Radio 4's output on remaining boards like 'POV' is immediately quashed. Funnily enough, I was listening to Frank Furedi on 'Beyond Belief' yesterday, wondering what a Living Marxist was doing on a religious programme, and it occurred to me that the boards crackdown started around the same time listeners started drawing attention to the fact that 'The Moral Maze' had begun turning into a home from home for LM contributors like Claire Fox and Kenan Malik.
And it's not like the Radio 4 & & Extra Blog (laughingly referred to by you as 'our blog') provides any real opportunity to offer our feedback publicly. BBC blogs are all about comments being ruthlessly monitored for anything deemed off-topic, and most users have given up trying to express an opinion long before they find the R4/4Ex blog.
Consequently, in the absence of the 'Feedback' messageboard that I have suggested in the past is as essential as the 'POV' board*, you really will never have a healthy forum for public discussion that could lead Radio 4 out of its present doldrums. If only you would invest in such a board...
*although, anyone who remembers what 'The Choice is Yours', 'Word of Mouth', 'Drama and Readings', etc, were like, and measures the Points of View boards against them must wonder why BBC TV is so favoured?
BBC Feedbackþ@BBCR4Feedback
@trollhunterx We would certainly like more of both - they are our reasons for existing.
Well, here's the thing about Twitter... you won't get much in the way of criticism through that medium because a critique requires details. People can get away with 'Yr show wz gr8!!', it seems, but 'Yr show wz carp!!' invariably leads to calls for 'a bit more precision' by the self-appointed sentinels of BBC Online. Hang around the 'Points of View' message board for a few days and you'll see what I mean.
So for detailed criticism, 'Feedback' has to rely on email, letters and possibly phone calls. It's probably not a coincidence that these are all means of communication that don't invite a public discussion, or that the BBC has culled all of the Radio 4 boards, and any attempt to discuss Radio 4's output on remaining boards like 'POV' is immediately quashed. Funnily enough, I was listening to Frank Furedi on 'Beyond Belief' yesterday, wondering what a Living Marxist was doing on a religious programme, and it occurred to me that the boards crackdown started around the same time listeners started drawing attention to the fact that 'The Moral Maze' had begun turning into a home from home for LM contributors like Claire Fox and Kenan Malik.
And it's not like the Radio 4 & & Extra Blog (laughingly referred to by you as 'our blog') provides any real opportunity to offer our feedback publicly. BBC blogs are all about comments being ruthlessly monitored for anything deemed off-topic, and most users have given up trying to express an opinion long before they find the R4/4Ex blog.
Consequently, in the absence of the 'Feedback' messageboard that I have suggested in the past is as essential as the 'POV' board*, you really will never have a healthy forum for public discussion that could lead Radio 4 out of its present doldrums. If only you would invest in such a board...
*although, anyone who remembers what 'The Choice is Yours', 'Word of Mouth', 'Drama and Readings', etc, were like, and measures the Points of View boards against them must wonder why BBC TV is so favoured?