Thread:Comments:Andrew Marr angers bloggers, describing them as 'inadequate, pimpled and single'/Comments from feedback form - "I do not 'Blog', though I read..."/reply

Having not heard the interview I can't be certain but I'm sure, not that you have suggested it, that it wasn't a foaming at the mouth rant (not least since that would be somewhat ironic). The words in the article that grabbed me the most was 'citizen journalism'. The amount of time BBC (and other) newscasters spend rifling through Emails and flicking through blurry pictures sent in by viewers is hugely disproportionate to the value that these 'right place at right time' mobile phone images or opinions offer. I can imagine that an excellent journalist such as Marr must get irritated that the viewer is given the impression that off the cuff comments or unresearched views are given the same forum as people such as himself (this is regularly satirised by the brilliant Mitchell and Webb; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQnd5ilKx2Y).

Wikinews is the ideal forum for citizen journalism (assuming some columnist arent actual journalists anyway) since it has a screening process to filter out hate filled crap but retains the benefits of blogging; a different viewpoint, news that channels dont think is worth reporting or doesn't fit their agenda.