tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post2257122889367922801..comments2024-03-12T12:54:32.926-07:00Comments on Life After Mastermind: There's Only One Way To Find Out -Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-26322912226521473432010-03-05T01:04:59.278-08:002010-03-05T01:04:59.278-08:00An interesting and amusing post. I especially like...An interesting and amusing post. I especially like your proposed solution. The 'dispute' is completely confected by the Times, which has fallen far from its once-supposed status as the 'journal of record'. News International (among other media conglomerates) is an implacable enemy of <b>all</b> things BBC, and they would love to use this light-hearted issue to crowbar one or both progs out of their cherished niches in UK culture. How better to do this than to encourage strife between them? Once you said that the shows are in very different formats, you'd said the lot. But then there'd be no story...<br /><br />I would go make some toast during a Jennifer Aniston round myself, but you are definitely right in charging elitism. Yes, if pop culture subjects were still excluded, the complaints would still come, but the real root of it is basic enmity. I'm unsure as to why Sky could never make a rival show, but it is clear that they can't, or it wouldn't work.<br /><br />I've also noticed that journalists in general don't seem to like top-level quizzes like UC and MM, perhaps because they are an assault on their innate arrogance, and also because 'knowledge professionals' are also often 'knowledge elitists'. Stick to 'Weakest Link', you lot! Cf. media hostility to Wikipedia.<br /><br />As for online comment sections, they are a standing joke amongst journalists, and site editors, as well as a bit of a stumbling block to the individualist-anarchist view that people are essentially sensible, and tend to apply this good sense in direct proportion to their freedom from authority.<br /><br />If ever you are tempted to pay any attention to the endless universe of ill-informed prejudiced and pointless opinion, just click through to the Daily Mail or YouTube and have a quick read.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08154283587974178357noreply@blogger.com