Newsnight's Paxman and his take on citizen media

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18 Apr 2008

NewsnightImage via WikipediaJeremy Paxman, the presenter of the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs show, Newsnight, reveals his feeling about user-generated content and engaging with the audience, with his pay-off at the end of the programme:

…on the website along with our editor’s pathetic pleas for you to send some of your old bits of home movies and the like so that we can become the BBC’s version of Animals Do the Funniest Things. Goodnight.

Arrogance or a joke that misfired? Watch the clip to decide for yourself.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVaZwJn-ZcM]

(Via Cybersoc.com)

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Steven

April 25th, 2008 at 5:17 am

The clip is 18 months old.

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