tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post8935146762878395821..comments2024-01-17T07:03:57.842+00:00Comments on The Mad Ranter: The all new Watchdog and PS3FlipChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09449939046593105926noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post-81566237490132796172009-09-21T12:36:30.224+01:002009-09-21T12:36:30.224+01:00I've always held up Watchdog as an example of ...I've always held up Watchdog as an example of what a non-commercial channel can do over a commercial one.<br /><br />No worrying about how this will affect their revenue instead what amounted to harassment and public shaming of companies when they were at fault and watching the squirming of the PR or CEO as they faced the inquisition knowing that they had to turn up because Watchdog was both that important and respected.<br /><br />In the episode I watched we had no interviews with the companies just written statements and as mentioned the format has been youthified.<br /><br />If this were the old Watchdog we'd have had the head of SCEE down there explaining how the YLOD is a minor matter; we'd have had someone from Trading Standards about the promotion WD mentioned. Instead we got the people 'wronged' and a celebrity none of whom can actually do anything.<br /><br />Now I may have just picked a bad episode so I'll continue viewing, but it'd better pick up soon.FlipChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09449939046593105926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post-72588581027994721472009-09-21T11:56:41.291+01:002009-09-21T11:56:41.291+01:00Live studio audience?
&hellis;OK, won't b...Live studio audience?<br /><br />&hellis;OK, won't bother watching that then.<br /><br />Heh, do you remember back in the days when they reported on things like the food processor that still works after you've unplugged it? Or the PopTarts that pop out at a trillion degrees Centigrade and surgically weld themselves to your hands?<br /><br />I think my favourit one was the discovery that the outside of an oven was hot enough to fry an egg…<br /><br />Great days. Or… maybe not, actually…Orphihttp://blog.orphi.me.uk/noreply@blogger.com