Monday, August 19, 2013

The BBC have lost the plot


Is it me or does anyone else get annoyed when the BBC blurs people's (and children in particular) faces? I used to think I understood why they do it but now I think it's just plain stupid.
The other day they blurred out some aggressive tweets that the news item was referring to. I could just about make out that it was a list of tweets. How stupid is that. Why show something that you can't see? It doesn't make sense. Just don't show anything, wouldn't that be better? Or are we not intelligent enough to to be able to understand what they are saying?
How does a blurred image help? Perhaps they should have a caption beneath the blurred image saying, 'here's a blurred image of what we mean.' The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
I include a blurred image above just in case you are so stupid that you can't work out what I'm talking about.

1 comment:

  1. It is indeed very annoying.
    I presume they do it to avoid being sued by some muppet who doesn't want to be seen on the telly behaving badly. Or do they actually want to preserve the person's identity and privacy - that would be far too altruistic.

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