2008/12/8 Andy Halsall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Monday 08 December 2008 11:42:24 Brian Butterworth wrote: >> Interesting point of debate. >> This logic says that it is possible only to have an opinion if you speak >> the language of the country that you have a though about. > > No, the logic seems to be that requiring comments in a language that only a > certain demographic of a country speak will illicit responses only from people > of that demographic, if, as in this case that demographic also have a > moderately uniform political view (as much as that is possible) you have > essentailly closed the debate to those outside of a particular political > grouping.
Of course you've also limited the debate to those who have the capability and the inclination to participate in such a debate on a foreign broadcaster's website, whatever language(s) it's hosted in. -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/peeebeee - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
