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Justine on Hard Talk

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MyThumbsHaveGoneWeird · 05/04/2010 16:33

Watching BBC World and this has just started. Anyone else watching? Has in already been on normal BBC? I am probably totally out of date.

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MyThumbsHaveGoneWeird · 05/04/2010 16:57

Only me then?
I thought she was very impressive!

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flimflammum · 05/04/2010 17:01

Hey there, I've just watched it (in Singapore) - was gobsmacked to see her. Yes, she was excellent, very eloquent and intelligent. Just a shame she was sidetracked off the real message of the Let girls be girls campaign.

franke · 05/04/2010 17:01

I just watched it. tbh I don't really see the point of Hardtalk anymore. It used to be a format in which the really tough questions were asked of the people who deserved a bit of a grilling from Tim Sebastian. I think it's become really lame and a bit desperate. Don't know the guy's name but much of his 'hard' questions were just insipid - making tenuous links between the difficulty of running the "Let girls be girls campaign" and the fact that Mumsnet relies on the evil internet for its livelihood I wonder if Justine felt she'd been hauled over the coals because it certainly didn't look like it and why would anyone want to anyway?

franke · 05/04/2010 17:02

But thanks for flagging it up btw - glad I saw it.

probonbon · 05/04/2010 17:08

Yes I saw it. I don't understand why this place is expected to be so much more than it is. Why is it criticised for not "reaching out"? Or being middle class? Or not taking responsibility for being a voice for 10 million women without computers?

It's just what it is, doesn't make claims to anything, it's other people who build it up or knock it down.

franke · 05/04/2010 17:13

Exactly probonbon. It's this casting around for spurious sticks to beat mn with which I find really annoying. Like the blokey in one of the broadsheets a few weeks back couldn't come up with anything better than there didn't seem to be much for men here.....

moondog · 05/04/2010 17:15

Mumsnet on Hard Talk??
#Jesus, you have to be joking. Although not 'hard' at all now-never was come to think of it.

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MyThumbsHaveGoneWeird · 05/04/2010 19:08

I know exactly what you mean about Hardtalk Frankie. Watching him flounder around for "hard" questions for Germaine Greer last week was just embarassing. It meant that he kept interupting the very interesting things that she was saying and there was no in depth focus on anything. It was frustrating, and a waste of an oppourtunity to have a real exchange of ideas.

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junglist1 · 05/04/2010 20:23

I've never heard of Hard Talk but everyone keeps saying MN is middle class and it isn't just middle class.

FabIsGettingThere · 05/04/2010 20:26

She is also in my magazine but with a very serious face.

southeastastra · 05/04/2010 20:30

is there a link anywhere?

WebDude · 06/04/2010 13:12

I found this link for the 'front page' of the Hard Talk sub-site...

Then managed to find this link for you...

WebDude · 06/04/2010 13:14

Programme info:

"A decade ago Justine Roberts saw the potential for bringing women like her together online. She co-founded Mumsnet and her internet project has morphed into an influential web phenomenon. It has brought hundreds of thousands of women together in Britain and given them political muscle, but how do they intend to use it? She talks to Stephen Sackur."

Broadcast on: BBC News Channel, 11:30pm Monday 5th April 2010
Duration: 30 minutes
Available until: 11:59pm Tuesday 5th April 2011

Aha - no chance it will be wiped in a week then!

FabIsGettingThere · 06/04/2010 17:44

I watched this last night. I thought J did pretty well.

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