Politicians staring at floods

[Sheilbh]

I loved this:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/pictures-of-politicians-in-wellies-and-staring-at-floods

[Liep]

That really was a good point-and-stare. Almost The Thick of It-esque.

[Admiral Yi]

I hate this kind of crap.  They would have run something equally insulting if those people had stayed away.  It's symptomatic of the infantilization of the voting public.

[Sheilbh]

I hate this kind of crap.  They would have run something equally insulting if those people had stayed away.  It's symptomatic of the infantilization of the voting public.

Touchy

It's not insulting and I don't think Buzzfeed would have run a story if it didn't have slightly funny pictures.

[PRC]

We had a lot of this during the floods in Calgary and Southern Alberta last June.  Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, Alberta Premier Alison Redford and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, standing around staring at the flooding.  Things got done, Nenshi was singled out as a superstar for his crisis management, but the pictures were the exact same thing as in the linked article. 

[garbon]

I don't think Buzzfeed would have run a story if it didn't have slightly funny pictures.

Let's not get crazy. Many of buzzfeed's articles are written by community members and there doesn't seem to be strong editorial control on what is consider an acceptable "article"/post.

[Sheilbh]

We had a lot of this during the floods in Calgary and Southern Alberta last June.  Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, Alberta Premier Alison Redford and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, standing around staring at the flooding.  Things got done, Nenshi was singled out as a superstar for his crisis management, but the pictures were the exact same thing as in the linked article.

Ah. We've had a pretty poor response.

Our first person staring at floods was Prince Charles (no-one's bettered him) who was overheard saying it was a tragedy it was taking so long to get things done. That was about a week ago.

Since then the minister initially in charge had to go into hospital with a detached retina ( ). Then Eric Pickles, the (Tory) minister in charge, launched an ill-timed political attack on the (Labour) non-executive Chair of the Environment Agency (not the CEO). Then the government realised how bad that looked and Cameron's been out front since then and it looks like Number 10 are briefing pretty heavily against Pickles.

Weirdly a big issue is now dredging. Suddenly everybody's an expert on dredging and their position on it is almost entirely predictable based on their political allegiance

[Razgovory]

I hate this kind of crap.  They would have run something equally insulting if those people had stayed away.  It's symptomatic of the infantilization of the voting public.

I don't think anything worthwhile has come from buzzfeed.

[Sheilbh]

Let's not get crazy. Many of buzzfeed's articles are written by community members and there doesn't seem to be strong editorial control on what is consider an acceptable "article"/post.

That's true I mean the Buzzfeed staff I suppose. This is by their UK Political Editor

[Sheilbh]

I don't think anything worthwhile has come from buzzfeed.

Then you're not spending enough time reading it. Even if you don't like the lists and things they've done some superb 'journalism' too. Think of things like the article from McCay Coppins on being a Mormon reporter attached to the Romney campaign, or this wonderful piece on Clue:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/something-terrible-has-happened-here-the-crazy-story-of-how

Edit: Also they've got a superb gay news section. I really enjoyed their recent article on the gays and figure skating:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/blairbraverman/why-is-the-worlds-gayest-sport-stuck-in-the-closet

[garbon]

http://order-order.com/2013/10/04/buzzfeed-sign-jim-waterson-as-first-political-editor/

Waterson hit TV screens around the world when he fried an egg on the street under the Walkie Talkie skyscraper

[DontSayBanana]

Man, Brit fire trucks are tiny.



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[Sheilbh]

http://order-order.com/2013/10/04/buzzfeed-sign-jim-waterson-as-first-political-editor/

Waterson hit TV screens around the world when he fried an egg on the street under the Walkie Talkie skyscraper

Nothing but the best (presumably he did that with City AM, a financial freesheet)

But that guy's an example of someone who is just quite mean-spirited and insulting - see his flood posts.

[PJL]

I loved this:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/pictures-of-politicians-in-wellies-and-staring-at-floods

It's God's punishment for us tolerating gays...

[Syt]