The BBC has recently started something that sounds excellent – 360 – “featuring your solutions to world problems” and good news from around the world submitted by users. So far so possibly interesting. But what do we find prominently featured on the home page? Links to a homeopath and, worse, an astrologer and other new-age-y crap. Are the BBCs monitors asleep at the switch? Do they misguidedly believe that any participation is better than no participation? Or is this fledgeling site actually being moderated by a rogue group inside the BBC which believes in this stuff? I met Richard a while back, who heads the site’s small team, and he seemed like an interesting guy so I am reluctant to pour cold water on an idea which could be really promising but really they should have a word with BBC Education before talking about 360’s “own” astrologer and allowing a page that looks official (ie no member byline) to go up talking rubbish like, “Your personal birth chart is your blueprint for life if you like, a wiring diagram for the psyche! It shows your inherent strengths and weaknesses whether physical, psychological or spiritual.”
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11 January 2003
