Blog community doesn’t care for mag’s view of social workers
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 17 September 2007 at 16:52
Tags: Blogs, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph
Community Care has had to close a comment thread on one of its blogs after a string of nasty comments on a post attacking the Daily Mail’s coverage of social work.
The post, by the RBI magazine’s deputy editor Janet Snell, promises a story in this week’s issue that will examine how, from its point of view, the Mail and the Telegraph had “hijacked” the story of an expectant mother who may have her child taken into foster care at birth. The magazine promises to put forward the social workers’ point of view.
Suffice to say that many commenters on Snell’s post do not share the her benign view of social workers.
“I had no idea that there was such a strong and virulent hatred of social workers,” says RBI’s head of blogging Adam Tinworth in an interesting post explaining the rationale of the decision to end the comments thread, a first for RBI’s B2B sites.
The silver lining, Tinworth notes, is that the discussion on the blog has become more active since the “Daily Mail incident”. His theory: the row drew more attention to the blog, and the sight of an active comment thread may have given timid readers the sense that the had “permission” to start leaving comments on the blog.
Tags: Blogs, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph
