Saturday, December 09, 2006

Surveys are flavour of the month at the BBC. Newsround's editor seems to have decided to report survey results on a strictly "need to know basis." So on Thursday there were no details of who carried out this survey about text bullying. And on Friday we were told this survey was carried out by Newsround, but nothing about the methodology and the ages of kids taking part. Newsround's audience still gets a blinkered view of the world.

Comments are requested for Newsround's website:

Biggest problems for kids?
What would you change?
Life in the future?

But only those meeting Newsround's age and acceptable subject criteria are selected. At the moment this means that messages from kids over 13 seem to be discarded, as are responses touching on the subject of homophobia, even though it's almost certain that some of those surveyed have to put up with daily homophobic prejudice.

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