Tell us what you think...

[almostwitty]

I remember overhearing a great Mitchell & Webb sketch lampooning the way in which media companies now desperately solicit comments and feedback on almost everything. In a roundabout way via Jem Stone's blog and Broadcast, here is the text transcription I shall be pasting onto all pages!

"Are you personally affected by this issue ? Then e-mail us. Or if you’re not affected, can you imagine what it would be like if you were ? Or if you
were affected by it but don’t want to talk about it can you imagine what it would be like not being affected by it ? Why not email us ? You may not know anything about the issue, but i bet you reckon something. So why not tell us what you reckon. Let us enjoy the full majesty of your uninformed ad hoc reckoning, by going to bbc.co.uk…clicking on “what i reckon” and beating on the keyboard with your fists and your head."

Of course, it'd be nice if people actually responded to comments instead of deploying the old management-speak of "I hear what you're saying..."

Comments

[shove-this-job.livejournal.com]

I think that in the broadest scope I may only reckon towards the preceeding work, but I opine that such work may or may not be rhetorical (ie, to provoke thoughtful insight versus collabrative understanding, sans verbage). That being said, I can only deduce that nodding thoughtfully at the screen is my best course of action in this inagural type of discourse. However, I find flaw in that reasoning as this work is by and large written form, and as such, a thoughtful nod might prove moot as it will be perceived as a non-comment. (Sidebar: It should be noted that this reasoning in and of itself may be flawed, as I have not fully researched the journal from its inception, and can only work upon such limited data as reading the user info page and going back a dozen or so entries. Therefore, the entire premise may hinge upon an alternative mode of communication ((ie, video or even audio)) that I am not aware of). Therefore, my only reasonable course of action is to respond thusly:

"I hear what you're saying." *nod* *nod* *nod*