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Talk about Newsnight - gremlins all gone

  • Newsnight
  • 6 Mar 07, 11:21 AM

Regular contributors to Talk About Newsnight may have noticed that in recent days the site has been, to coin a technical term, a bit "broken".

rubbish1_203.jpgKeen not to deprive our viewers of their forum, we enticed Jeremy Paxman - under the pretence that he was being sent forth among the Newsnight desks to rage against a particularly unsightly area of in the vicinity of Martha Kearney's shelves - to clean up any gremlins with the aid of one of those claw things on the end of a stick. The Newsnight mouse, incidentally, managed to avoid being ensnared by Paxman's pincers.

In other words the bugs are, we're told, now fixed and Newsnight viewers are again free to praise, complain, debate, compose verse, tell jokes, or anything else you usually like to use the Newsnight blog for.

Sorry again. But do let us know if it stirs any poetry within you...

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  • 1.
  • At 01:50 PM on 06 Mar 2007,
  • Spartacus wrote:

Naughty Newsnight
Fed Martha after midnight
Gremlins ate the website

  • 2.
  • At 03:11 PM on 06 Mar 2007,
  • Doggerel is for Life, not just for Christmas wrote:

The Newsnight blog is resurrected,
Again its denizens give voice.
The irate, enamoured, wry and hectored,
Exercising virtual choice.

Inform, delight, speak out, complain,
Embrace the body politic.
Participation reigns again,
Vindication at a click.

Fixed, is it?

I just tried to post what I wrote a few days ago (see below) and got this:

Comment Submission Error
Your comment submission failed for the following reasons:
In an effort to curb malicious comment posting by abusive users, I've enabled a feature that requires a weblog commenter to wait a short amount of time before being able to post again. Please try to post your comment again in a short while. Thanks for your patience.
Return to the original entry

Original:

Just watched the Friday Newsnight

Not impressed.

'Is it just me, or is the structure of the site and posting system all a bit odd at the 'mo?

May explain the massive number of posts, I guess.

Just watched my PC download, in a very staccato manner (a function of other site issues perhaps?).

Re: Unwitting discrimination

I have never really understood what the definition(s) of racism is/are, and adding institutional on to it just seems to muddy already murky waters.

Still a lot of folk are making nice careers out the whole thing.

I can only wonder how one can really address something 'unwitting', as surely by definition it is not done on purpose and is almost impossible to 'correct' without highly legitimate accusations of undue influence. And by being a whole lot more sinister than the rather quaint 'positive discrimination', which seems to mean strong-arming a result to suit un-demo or meritocratic agendas that often seem held outside the public's voting wishes.

Ms. Abbott was singularly unconvincing and uncharacteristically tongue-tied and inept when trying to explain away some rather key questions on why one sector alone was performing so poorly. In fact a tack was quickly changed almost mid-sentence, and hence maybe the piece should have been re-labelled, 'institutional class-in-London-ism' instead?

The original title could have held true had the 'wealth of qualitative evidence which suggests that black pupils are disciplined more frequently, more harshly, and for less serious misbehaviour than other pupils" - and that such a differential approach is likely to be unwitting on the part of the teachers' made it on air, but I don't recall any being mentioned. Maybe the qualitative evidence referred to was Ms. Abbott's alone? In which case it made for an interesting insight into journalism today.

Re: Lib Dem poll

Ming, er, who the heck put him in charge? I'm off to a Lib Dem 'do' soon as part of a mission to figure who in my county gets my vote as our MP is standing down.

His performance in this would have been enough to make the odds of my support pretty dim, but the more recently unveiled discussions on pacts with Mr. Brown are, if true, enough to strike that flickering light.

Looking forward to Panorama tonight, though.'

Or maybe 'a feature that requires a weblog commenter to wait a short amount of time before being able to post again' is what is meant by 'fixing'?


  • 4.
  • At 12:04 AM on 07 Mar 2007,
  • vikingar wrote:

COMMS IN CHAOS

Posted & waited,
But nothing was seen.
Was my time composing,
Nothing more than a dream?

Ranted & Raved,
& research my prose,
My hair turned greyer still,
& stale grew my clothes.

Then is appeared,
But I am no clearer
To how such is moderated,
Especially at night, perchance by the cleaner?

NN oh NN,
NCA lovers friend,
Never concede an integrity defeat,
Rather like a pragmatic river, bend.

Keep the faith :)

漏 2007 vikingar

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