One minor joy of Twitter is no more. A number of wags at the BBC have taken to assuming the mantle of inanimate objects, or their occupants - @bbctvcentre, @bushhousemice, and @killingstation.
This morning, one of the more recherche, @n6gallery is no more. The gallery, which normally drives the BBC News Channel, has in the past been heigh-tist about Matthew Amroliwala, tan-ist about Tim Willcox and ear-ist about Andrew Marr. And downright rude about other galleries working in BBC News.
Now it seems the wag responsible has been outed at a Christmas party (they still have them ?) for those working on The One O'Clock News - and the account has been closed down.
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I can't really respect the BBC's social media policy for staff. As I understand it, if you are identifiable as a member of BBC staff, you are subject to rules requiring you to observe 'due impartiality' and not 'bring the BBC into disrepute'. I get the latter - clearly you don't want staff slagging the Corp off online - but the former? Does every single member of the Corporation have to watch their p's and q's when saying something a bit political?: 'The Tories are stifling the recovery. On the other hand Labour left the country in a mess'? Just in case someone at the Daily Mail sees it and wants to use it as evidence that the BBC is a nest of lefties - something it believes and promulgates often enough without supporting evidence?
ReplyDeleteThere seems to be no distinction made between, on the one hand, on-air presenters, people in editorial roles, and on the other, backroom techies and support staff. Everyone has to sign a 'declaration of personal interests' which includes employees telling their boss not only if THEY belong to a political party, but whether any of their 'friends or close personal contacts' do. In other words, their family. That sounds a teeny-weeny bit OTT, not to say totalitarian. In this case, do the spoof Twitter accounts bring the BBC into disrepute? From what I've seen of them, no.