See Hear
I was very disappointed with the programme this week on Internet section
Probably the worst I have seen on See Hear and if this is the new See Hear then I am turning off.
So to think I have told everyone and their dogs about see hear and their comments makes me cringe
First of all See Hear did not explain what Social Networking is properly and it heavily focused on Bebo ( I thought the BBC not allowed to advertise).
72 year old guy who was interviewed said he was looking for lady friend, I think he should joined a dating agency and not Bebo as I am not sure if he knew what Bebo is?
And as for the DUK (Deaf UK) section, on national TV I was seen looking at the computer but not DUK I may add.
So the inaccurate reporting it said on Deaf-UK was it first social networking site
Deaf-UK is not a social networking site and secondly it’s not the first either
It’s just a name owned by Yahoo and its held on yahoo server.
So yes John set it up and it requires no effort at all…
It was popular when it first started when there was more than 1 moderator and having more than one moderator will ensure its not bias.
Was very popular in its time but sadly its not due to rise of other forums and social networking MSN etc.
It was said that it has over 2500 members and postings a day..
2500 postings a day? I knew it was heavily moderated so where are my other 2400 posts ?
I am not going to bore you how bad DUK is at the moment, you can find that out for yourself, but what annoys me is the inaccurate reporting and the BBC thinks it’s biggest deaf forum to which it isn’t.
Did they do their research properly? – I think no.
Do you really want the BBC to be endorsing a forum that encourages bullying?
Do you want to be in a forum where the moderator is paranoid and able to modify and delete/bounce message back to you if he doesn’t agree with you?
He asked me outside the BBC studios what I said on Camera, doesn’t that tell you he is paranoid? What was he afraid of? Of course my reply was watch the show.
And last of all the deaf couple who didn’t get internet access for 3 months well that happens to a lot of people regardless if they deaf or not but why was that shown? Does not make sense to me to “what happens if you lose all your Internet connection”…. Erm die of boredom?
So what are they trying to say are the incapable of getting it sorted out
And next week we will dedicate a half hour show to Miss Deaf-UK in this day and age do we really need to see this?
So what did my friends and family think of my 5 second acting debut
“Blink and you would have missed it”
“what is that shit? Are deaf people mentally incapable of doing things themselves”
“and now something new the internet” blimey the internet been going over 15 years!”
“I often wondered what dumb means and now I know”
I blinked.
If SEE HEAR is to really address issues in the UK deaf community, and do ‘cutting edge’ deaf TV, then I think they have a huge mountain to climb. The net, is where deaf people are now, but they didn’t seem to understand any of it, or how we interact with it.
Deaf in the UK have made a lot of innovative online access available, blogs/vblogs have also left e-mail sites like Deaf-UK, well behind, why join a biased and excessively moderated e-mail board, when you can blog your own view ? Or one that gets vital information for deaf people, then keeps it to itself ?
The BBC did deaf online a great disservice by its confused ‘news item’ that saw Deaf-UK’s one-man band, boasting of upwards of 2,500 e mails, when it averages only, 50 or so a week, mostly from the same 6-8 people. Actually participating membership is about 40.
Even the SEE HEAR message board did better, the see hear team appear to not even read that. Bebo is NOT a discussion site, it is a social site. SEE HEAR, and Fintan’s own deaf-UK chat,set up after the debacle of Deaf-UK, appear to be the places where debates/arguments (!) take place now, and Deaf-UK is not even placed as representative, either of deaf people in the UK, or their views, it is a one-man end-of-the pier show for John Savva.
It is a pity we haven’t yet got deaf.blog (UK) to emulate the American deaf.read, we were there first but didn’t capitalise, either by backing those who set it up, or British deaf online using it, they’ve all gone to the pub. Now UK deaf with something to say, are blogging in America instead. Something sad is happening in the UK, the deaf here have lost the will to take any interest, i.e. all but a select few.
SEE HEAR after 25 years seems past it’s sell-by date, I doubt, they have the will or the staff to do cutting edge. We need headlines/controversy, because they reached their limit 8 years ago with the ‘Look ! deaf can do the same as hearing people..’, line, it just looks patronising now, and young deaf feel only geriatrics watch SEE HEAR. We are getting candy floss.. and attempts to celebritise presenters instead.
Apprently the last 4 years output of SEE HEAR was based on interviewing 80 people in 2003, (UK stats put BSL using deaf people at 50-90,000!).
Blimey MM for once I agree with you
No seriously I do agree and its such a pity Deafblog not up and running again.
That’s where I found most blogs including yours and kept it in my RSS reader.
I have bugged Joe about this on MSN last night but he has millions of other things to do.
Only way I find new deaf blogs is via links to comments on blogs as not all of us submit our blogs to DeafRead.
We seem to have a awful habit of setting up ideas and not follow it through.
So for now lets See Hear carry on patronising us and letting them getting away with it after all we pay the license fee and shouldn’t we be emailing them and comment on See Hear forum?
How many people blogged about this?
so far there has been 2 this one and kyles http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/index.php/2007/06/19/see_what
Deaf-uk-chat members were not happy about See Hear and on DUK only 1 person was happy with it (full of praise etc and I don’t need to tell you on that one)
Agreeing with me lol (It has to happen at least once every millenium by law of averages).