http://www.spectacle.co.uk/spectacleblog/poverty-and-the-media/participation-in-the-media-people-with-experience-of-poverty/ Spectacle's blog on media, urbanism, workshops and archives Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:00:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.spectacle.co.uk/spectacleblog/poverty-and-the-media/participation-in-the-media-people-with-experience-of-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-2 stickypenny Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:41:45 +0000 http://www.spectacle.co.uk/spectacleblog/?p=3#comment-2 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gYD_LLFTQU&feature=related/" rel="nofollow"> Chav hunting: Class war</a> At least this video is being criticised, but I doubt it's was posted with that in the mind. The internet just makes it easier for people to sit in unashamed, smug judgment, although papers and politicians play it equally well. Fine, criticise criminal and anti-social behaviour, try and do something constructive about it, but the sort of attitudes that produce this don't achieve anything but an inflated sense of superiority, palming off the countries problems on easy but ineffective targets. Helpful!?
Chav hunting: Class war
At least this video is being criticised, but I doubt it’s was posted with that in the mind. The internet just makes it easier for people to sit in unashamed, smug judgment, although papers and politicians play it equally well. Fine, criticise criminal and anti-social behaviour, try and do something constructive about it, but the sort of attitudes that produce this don’t achieve anything but an inflated sense of superiority, palming off the countries problems on easy but ineffective targets. Helpful!?

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