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_ News Worth Discussing _ Jimmy Wales on BBC One's Question Time

Posted by: powercorrupts

Thurs 24th Nov.

Question Time is the UK's flagship current affairs debate programme. A six-person panel consisting of politicians, specialists and occasionally guest celebs, all of whom are asked questions in front of an audience of general public from the various UK locations where the programme is held. The public ask some of the questions. The youngest Dimbleby (oh the BBC) sits in the middle and chairs the discussion. It does get some criticisism for too-often being "Horlicks" TV - ie for being bedtime fayre (it's on between 10-11pm every Thursday and is often bit too cosy in it's quite-tight 30min time slot), but it occasionally makes headline news with the odd unprepared comment or gaff from a politician. It often depends on the news, and debate can be heated sometimes too if the right people are on it.

How Jimbo fits in with the format I do not know. He's not British, or connected with any current event as such - but they do stretch the rules every now and again. A localised question cheekily thrown his way could be fascinating to watch given his US-Weirdo politics. Dimbleby is Old Guard, but could well be good value in a situation like this: until Jimbo starts spinning his bullshit about Wikipedia that is, when it's unlikely no one there will know any better.

The last time Jimbo was on the BBC (Radio 3) someone in the audience compared him to Ghandi - judging by Dimbleby's 'view ahead' at the end of the last show, he might not get such an easy ride this time - Dimbleby made a rather snorting aside over WP's accuracy. It will be interesting to see how it pans out - I can imagine that Wikimedia has already complained and tuned right-up its lobbying/propaganda machine to get itself an easy ride. I expect they are sugar-coating the other panellists Wikipedia entries as we speak.

Posted by: lilburne

Will he have had the eggs removed from him after his India jaunt?

Currently the news is newspaper intrusion into people's privacy wrt the now closed down News of the Screws, and he was last heard on RADIO4 on that subject a couple of months back, saying that everyone should just suck it up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/pmprivacy-wales.shtml

Next week victims of press intrusion are giving evidence so there is a good chance that he's there for that.

Posted by: powercorrupts

QUOTE(lilburne @ Fri 18th November 2011, 8:24pm) *

Will he have had the eggs removed from him after his India jaunt?

he was last heard on RADIO4 on that subject a couple of months back, saying that everyone should just suck it up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/pmprivacy-wales.shtml

Next week victims of press intrusion are giving evidence so there is a good chance that he's there for that.


I think it was Radio 3 - I've corrected it anyway. http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=34767&view=findpost&p=283499 which I'm planning to add a bit to if the mods stick it somewhere so I can find the flipping thing (it's currently stuck in the newsfeed folder).

I'm sure you are right about the press intrusion theme. Hopefully this time he's be properly grilled on what WP is supposed to be (and he won't be allowed to cherry-compare with Britannica over areas Britannica doesn't cover). Man I'd love to be in that audience.

Posted by: lilburne

He'd be a good guest for "Have I Got News For You".

Posted by: SB_Johnny

QUOTE(powercorrupts @ Fri 18th November 2011, 3:33pm) *
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=34767&view=findpost&p=283499 which I'm planning to add a bit to if the mods stick it somewhere so I can find the flipping thing (it's currently stuck in the newsfeed folder).

"The mods" generally don't bump things from there to here unless two people comment on it (dem's da rulez, as they say), but I suppose I can merge it into this thread if you ask nicely. smile.gif

Posted by: powercorrupts

QUOTE(SB_Johnny @ Fri 18th November 2011, 11:02pm) *

QUOTE(powercorrupts @ Fri 18th November 2011, 3:33pm) *
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=34767&view=findpost&p=283499 which I'm planning to add a bit to if the mods stick it somewhere so I can find the flipping thing (it's currently stuck in the newsfeed folder).

"The mods" generally don't bump things from there to here unless two people comment on it (dem's da rulez, as they say), but I suppose I can merge it into this thread if you ask nicely. smile.gif


Thanks, but I'm not sure if this thread is the best place, esp if the tv programme is interesting (I'd probably rather start a new one just on the radio show when I've listened to it again). Could you move it here in its own thread, ie Jimmy Wales on BBC Radio3 2011 or something?

My idea was just to move it into the 'Highlight' folder at the top (not my name for it). The problem of course is the combination of there being several daily 'newsfeed' posts, which push the relatively few commented-on threads out of sight - combined with the fact that the search engine only searches the top area of the forum, and not the areas like Media below it. The Highlight folder looked to me like a way around it. I'm sure mods could use discretion, couldn't they? I expect a few potentially useful threads could have been lost for the sake of a relatively simple mod action. They seem to use plenty of descretion in just about ever other area here (ahemgbgahem).

On the subject of Media, now that Wales clearly sees himself as a global brand, and is all over the world selling his special universe, perhaps a news/media forum should in the main area now? Some reorganising perhaps? Actually, I'll post this is Wikipedia Review Review.

Posted by: SB_Johnny

QUOTE(powercorrupts @ Fri 18th November 2011, 7:08pm) *

QUOTE(SB_Johnny @ Fri 18th November 2011, 11:02pm) *

QUOTE(powercorrupts @ Fri 18th November 2011, 3:33pm) *
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=34767&view=findpost&p=283499 which I'm planning to add a bit to if the mods stick it somewhere so I can find the flipping thing (it's currently stuck in the newsfeed folder).

"The mods" generally don't bump things from there to here unless two people comment on it (dem's da rulez, as they say), but I suppose I can merge it into this thread if you ask nicely. smile.gif

Thanks, but I'm not sure if this thread is the best place, esp if the tv programme is interesting (I'd probably rather start a new one just on the radio show when I've listened to it again). Could you move it here in its own thread, ie Jimmy Wales on BBC Radio3 2011 or something?

No offense, but I think you may be missing the point of the 2 people posting trigger (i.e., finding it interesting and therefore worth discussing). tongue.gif

Posted by: powercorrupts

QUOTE(SB_Johnny @ Sat 19th November 2011, 1:02am) *

QUOTE(powercorrupts @ Fri 18th November 2011, 7:08pm) *

QUOTE(SB_Johnny @ Fri 18th November 2011, 11:02pm) *

QUOTE(powercorrupts @ Fri 18th November 2011, 3:33pm) *
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=34767&view=findpost&p=283499 which I'm planning to add a bit to if the mods stick it somewhere so I can find the flipping thing (it's currently stuck in the newsfeed folder).

"The mods" generally don't bump things from there to here unless two people comment on it (dem's da rulez, as they say), but I suppose I can merge it into this thread if you ask nicely. smile.gif

Thanks, but I'm not sure if this thread is the best place, esp if the tv programme is interesting (I'd probably rather start a new one just on the radio show when I've listened to it again). Could you move it here in its own thread, ie Jimmy Wales on BBC Radio3 2011 or something?

No offense, but I think you may be missing the point of the 2 people posting trigger (i.e., finding it interesting and therefore worth discussing). tongue.gif


Gee, thanks! The words "No offence but.." from a WR mod. Hmm, where could that lead? The problem with the newsfeed forum of course is people seeing it - threads get moved along so quick. Anyway, why does a post have to be "worth discussing" to be interesting or potentially useful? Nobody here says "Hey Dude - thanks for the post!" do they. Despite everything, I find plenty of good things on WR which I don't actually feel the need to reply to, and the 'discussions' I do see are often just garbage frankly. No one can deny it - a decent enough thread-opening, followed by a decent comment or two if you are lucky, then clowning at best - and Abd, Ottava etc at worse (and usually the two elements go together). The "discussion" is probably the weakest point of this website. But it is potentially a useful resource - burried under the zigabytes of bullshit.

Anyway - nevermind. I'll come back to it myself at some point.