Tuesday, 31 July 2007

Children's Fight Club - Panorama

Last evening's Panorama report on Children's Fight Club will have filled most people with horror and the gut reaction will be 'block, remove, stop, prosecute etc'. My view is that will be like Mickey in the Walt Disney version of the 'Sorcerer's Apprentice' chopping the broom in half. For each one blocked or stopped by 'authority' two more will spring up in its place.

I felt that part of the real answer came from the Rachel Whetstone of Google:
'it is up to the community who use the site to decide when something isinappropriate.'

This is realistic and about education ... but will it work ... it obviously didn't work in the cases the BBC chose to report. I can't help feeling that Panorama sometimes loses its perspective and chooses to make a stance rather than leaving us to make up our own minds about an issue. I haven't got over its presentation of WIFI yet with its accompanying throbbing red lights!

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At 02 August 2007 16:42 , Blogger Peter said...

I used to be a big fan of Mark (Radcliffe) n Lard when they were on Radio 1 a few years ago. They used to do a regular sketch during which they would read spoof news items. They used sensationalist language but didn't actually report anything of consequence and deliberately ignored any facts. I've really missied it....but now it's back and they've called it Panorama.

 

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