I'm not sure what prompted this, but overnight there have been a series of entertaining tweets concerning BBC America, apparently started by Matthew Wells, just about to head up a new online operation for the Guardian, based in New York. Matt was concerned about keeping up with Eurovision in the years ahead...
Isn't it on BBC America? If not I think this should be an early Guardian America campaign
Ex-Guardianista Emily Bell, now director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, responded: I don't say this lightly but the leadership of BBC America should all be fired. Worst Channel Ever
Matt: It really shouldn't be a difficult channel to run, should it? Should have been wall-to-wall eurovision today
Emily: Six hours of Star Trek today. it is actually a scandal. turns out I'm still paying my licence fee....
Someone called Morus joins in: BBC America is unspeakable. A chimp with an IP proxy picking random clips off iPlayer could do better.
Emily concurs: I assumed that's how it was powered...a Bronx Zoo experiment
Then a voice of moderation from Tom Coates, ex BBC web-guru, now based in San Francisco: Surely it's not designed for ex-pats...
Emily's still steaming: It is not 'designed' at all. More spat out of a 'crap randomiser'
Ex-pat Kevin Marks says it's not random: BBC America takes great TV and butchers it into a BBC mandarin's caricature of American TV
If only some of the Guardian's columns were as heady...
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