2007-07-30
Was tonight's top ITN news report an incredibly subtle advert for Teenspot.com, a website that I didn't even know existed until it was singled out in tonight's evening bulletin for being fertile ground for paedophiles.
Actually looking at the site, you have to feel a touch sorry for Bebo, Facebook, and Myspace, who were also named in the report. Myspace might be a little sketchy at times, but it doesn't splash 'Teen Chat: Singles - 525 members chatting, Flirt - 199 members chatting' or 'hotguys being spongebathed at the hospitool' all over the front page.
(I'd like to take a moment to reflect the death of the English language while we're here. 'Hospitool'? Really?)
The bizarre thing is that, despite being the top story on theevening news, there was almost no news in the story. Yes, people on the internet can be creepy! I wonder if they were just upset that the BBC got the headline grabbing story of the day with Children's Fight Club (though, surely, the first rule of Children's Fight Club should be: You Do Not Film The Fight And Upload It To YouTube, Stupid).