Bloggers are 'inadequate, pimpled and single
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The BBC's website has nearly 100 blogs and invites its readers to "have your say" on an enormous range of topics, from Westminster to the weather.
But one of the corporation's most familiar faces, Andrew Marr, has dismissed bloggers as "inadequate (onbekwaam), pimpled (met pukkels) and single (single)", and citizen journalism as the "spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night".
(Heel juist wat veel blogs en internetcommentaren betreft, ook in respectabele sites.)
Marr, the BBC's former political editor who now presents BBC1's flagship Sunday morning show, said: "Most citizen journalism strikes me as nothing to do with journalism at all. (Wie zegt dat dat journalistiek zou zijn?)
"A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother's basements and ranting. They are very angry people," he told the Cheltenham Literary Festival. "OK – the country is full of very angry people. Many of us are angry people at times. Some of us are angry and drunk". (Hij lijkt zelf behoorlijk boos. Tijd om eens te bloggen?
He added: "Most of the blogging is too angry and too abusive. Terrible things are said online because they are anonymous. People say things online that they wouldn't dream of saying in person." (Heel terecht.)
Marr's successor as political editor, Nick Robinson, has previously criticised the tone and and quality of online debate, saying he had stopped reading most of the comments on his own BBC blog.
"It's a waste of my time," he said in March this year, adding that the blog's comments section was frequented by people who had "already made their minds up, to abuse me, to abuse each other, or abuse a politician". (Sommige politci doen ook niet liever, denk maar aan de Britse MP die Van Rompuy uitschold voor een zwabber of iets dergelijks.)
The BBC's website has nearly 100 blogs and invites its readers to "have your say" on an enormous range of topics, from Westminster to the weather.
But one of the corporation's most familiar faces, Andrew Marr, has dismissed bloggers as "inadequate (onbekwaam), pimpled (met pukkels) and single (single)", and citizen journalism as the "spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night".
(Heel juist wat veel blogs en internetcommentaren betreft, ook in respectabele sites.)
Marr, the BBC's former political editor who now presents BBC1's flagship Sunday morning show, said: "Most citizen journalism strikes me as nothing to do with journalism at all. (Wie zegt dat dat journalistiek zou zijn?)
"A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother's basements and ranting. They are very angry people," he told the Cheltenham Literary Festival. "OK – the country is full of very angry people. Many of us are angry people at times. Some of us are angry and drunk". (Hij lijkt zelf behoorlijk boos. Tijd om eens te bloggen?
He added: "Most of the blogging is too angry and too abusive. Terrible things are said online because they are anonymous. People say things online that they wouldn't dream of saying in person." (Heel terecht.)
Marr's successor as political editor, Nick Robinson, has previously criticised the tone and and quality of online debate, saying he had stopped reading most of the comments on his own BBC blog.
"It's a waste of my time," he said in March this year, adding that the blog's comments section was frequented by people who had "already made their minds up, to abuse me, to abuse each other, or abuse a politician". (Sommige politci doen ook niet liever, denk maar aan de Britse MP die Van Rompuy uitschold voor een zwabber of iets dergelijks.)
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