Since the BBC is more generally accused of being pro-Chavez because it
enjoys his anti-US position, maybe this is just a bit of balance?
More seriously, it does raise wider issues about how Internet access
and language skew online representation. The BBC is always very clear
that polls online are
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I think the Venezuelan diplomat is half right. As more and more political
debate is conducted online those with limitedor no access to the Internet
are not represented fairly. From my experience most poor people accessing
the Internet from cafes
are too busy emailing relatives for money or some
Andy Halsall wrote:
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.
Very good point, although I don't know how prevalent internet access is in
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
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.
Very good point, although I don't know how prevalent internet access is in
Venezuela and how
Good morning list,
I don't suppose many of you are aware of this, but this morning the BBC
News Online website is being accused of bias by the Venezuelan
Ambassador to the UK for a very (IMHO) interesting reason.
For those who can read Spanish, the details of the accusation are on the
Venezuelan
This just sounds like a classic BBC cock-up/lack of co-ordination to me.
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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
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
This is just silly, I can like a part of Wales without
On 08/12/2008 14:06, Rich Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
Bit of a geeky query this one, so sorry in advance if it all gets a bit
technical.
I've noticed since the Local Radio changes to iplayer a couple of weeks ago
that the mediaselector XML that I (and several other sites) use to get links
to Real Audio content that is available on iplayer has
never feel sorry for being too geeky!
Ah see what you mean, so some kind of attribute would be useful but currently
the spec doesn't support it. Or maybe we should be producing two different
types of feeds? One international and the other UK?
Ian Forrester
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You never know how technical to go before people start falling asleep at
their desks..
The latter idea (a separate feed) would probably be easier to implement in
the short term - perhaps an international version of the mediaselector with
a similar URL pattern to the current one
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