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« Reply #75 on: 21:17:07, 27-02-2007 » |
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That's what the talentless twerp Rodger Wright calls "interaction", T-P.
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« Reply #76 on: 21:28:08, 27-02-2007 » |
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`talentless twerp`?, Reiner, you flatter RW, surely? I bow to your restraint.
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« Reply #77 on: 18:25:06, 28-02-2007 » |
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Well, I've just been 'modded' for the very first time too! Two consecutive posts in a thread on the breakfast strand, the first one where I was responding directly to Rob Cowan, who I quoted at the start of my message: <quote>I want to use interactivity to the advantage of all of us - principally for sharing and learning.</quote> (Rob) 'And that sharing and learning is what's been done so brilliantly on these messageboards in the past too. ' I then went on to share an example involving the Shostakovich symphonies and Ron's input (who was online at the time) and our exchange got pulled for being 'off-topic'.... ...yet over on the Music Matters board, the Musical Connections game approaches 300 posts!  |
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« Reply #78 on: 18:29:03, 28-02-2007 » |
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« Reply #79 on: 23:17:28, 28-02-2007 » |
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Well, guess who's had a triple modding today, for these three posts from the Radio 3 on its Deathbed thread;
Posting 1:
Indeed, Draco: if our own 'interaction' is curtailed and there's precious
little from the majority of presenters, then what might be an ongoing focus
group for R3 becomes instead a sterile environment and the chance for the
powers that be to 'learn on the hoof' about what is and isn't working and act
accordingly is wasted; that in time must have a detrimental effect on the
listening figures.
You can't please all of the people all of the time, but trying to please all of
the people some of the time is surely a better way to win listeners than the
vain attempt to please some of the people all of the time; the latter is no
more than Lowest Common Denominator broadcasting, and as such would surely
sound the death knell for Radio 3.
Posting 2: (In reply to Mark's pulled post above)
Yes, Mark, that was a wonderful period of learning and sharing, and that box
was my highlight of the year too - have you noticed that the big new
Concertgebouw box includes a live 1971 Kondrashin DSCH 4? I'm very, very
tempted......
Posting 3:
Please, please PLEASE no phone-ins! It's been tried before on R3 request
programmes and it was cringeworthily embarrassing. Nothing destroys the smooth
flow of enjoyment faster than a gushing or stuttering caller uttering inanities
whilst a presenter valiantly tries to move things back to the realms of
normality. It's cheap (in both senses of the word) and I earnestly hope that R3
has not yet become a venue for shoestring broadcasting.
As you see, all deeply seditious stuff, though I will concede that Posting 2 might be construed as off-topic.
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« Reply #80 on: 00:05:05, 01-03-2007 » |
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I too have been Modded 3 times today for Messages posted two days and more ago.
1) Posting:
Good evening. I listened to the Third Programme (artistic, intellectual, educational and entertaining) when I was over here, from 1947 and at various visits until it became the somewhat inferior Radio 3. I have listened to Radio 3 now for some 21 years and now I feel that I'm starting to listen to Radio 2 ½
2) Good evening. Having, rather reluctantly, learned a modicum of Latin during my education, I have always wanted to meet an ancient Roman so that I could learn the correct pronunciation that he used during his lifetime. Naturally, I would, if such a meeting ever took place, pass his instruction on to those academics who are not quite sure where they stand with this problem. From personal experience, I can say that sung Latin is a little different on the Continent, in the U.K. and in America. I have also encountered the demand to sing it with a pronunciation as if it was modern Italian. To be totally pedantic about the pronunciation of a dead language is, surely, a little uncalled for.
Regards (this was posted in defence of a lady Presenter whose Latin had been condemned. It seems odd to mod it)
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Pardon. Too many "I feels".
You must wait etc. etc. What a childish introduction this delay has proved to be - particularly in view of the small number of Boards now available here. (to mod this is really weird. So it must be that criticism is not to be countenanced.
In future I will make no defensive comments about the BBC or any of its employees.
Cheers
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« Reply #81 on: 00:09:25, 01-03-2007 » |
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Having, rather reluctantly, learned a modicum of Latin during my education, I have always wanted to meet an ancient Roman so that I could learn the correct pronunciation that he used during his lifetime. Naturally, I would, if such a meeting ever took place, pass his instruction on to those academics who are not quite sure where they stand with this problem. From personal experience, I can say that sung Latin is a little different on the Continent, in the U.K. and in America. I have also encountered the demand to sing it with a pronunciation as if it was modern Italian. To be totally pedantic about the pronunciation of a dead language is, surely, a little uncalled for. They couldn't find their dictionaries to ascertain whether words like "modicum" and "pedantic" were obscene so thought they'd err on the side of caution, maybe? |
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« Reply #82 on: 00:13:29, 01-03-2007 » |
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At the risk of causing unnecessary thoughts of pain to all males and their tackle, the words 'sledgehammer', 'crack' and 'nuts' come unbidden to my mind........
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« Reply #84 on: 01:28:40, 01-03-2007 » |
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« Reply #85 on: 09:24:27, 01-03-2007 » |
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In the cold light of day I've decided that my description of the other place was maybe too lenient. Now it appears more like a marriage between the McCarthy trials and the Maoist Cultural Revolution. "Answer the question, answer the question, stick slavishly to our narrow definition. If it's cultured or interesting, all the more reason to zap it...."
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« Reply #86 on: 10:43:56, 01-03-2007 » |
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Rob Cowan breakfast is now flirting with less demanding listeners.
Bring culture to masses. Political correctness, but in form of blah, blah, blah. Classical music is elitist's thing. The Soviet's did not succeed with their words.
If you play popular classic you may gain some people, but lose others. It seems to be no win situation.
How do you all know so much about life in communist countries. You never lived there. I am impressed.
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« Reply #87 on: 14:35:08, 01-03-2007 » |
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Ho! A trainee Moderator. Cheers  |
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« Reply #88 on: 14:38:47, 01-03-2007 » |
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« Reply #89 on: 14:41:34, 01-03-2007 » |
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You think they've been trained? Then what do their trainers look like?
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