Well, it’s a bold move by terrestrial television channels to say the least. I noticed that ITV Central created their ‘Uploaded’ feature to allow users to create short news clips and post them online. I was definitely going to blog about this – but Paul Bradshaw beat me to it!
Five have also done the same – but for a larger television channel compared to a regional programme, it doesn’t seem to have had a lot of publicity in the way that Uploaded did.
Five are expanding their ‘Your News‘ section to include clips created by members of the public that are uploaded onto Friction TV. Users can then ‘Fire Back’ to the video by either text or video.
This seems like an excellent idea – we can actually have an opinion – but Paul Bradshaw thinks otherwise. Paul argues that it is the news channel who decides what gets shown, and the whole segment will only last around 60 seconds. He says:
“ITV choose the topic, choose the responses, and, by the sounds of things, even choose the correspondents.”
A wise point – but surely if enough people raise the same point we might actually even end up with a whole show of UGN (User Generated News) or maybe even a whole television channel in the future? UGN – Sounds quite catchy! Who knows? News is always changing.
By the way, if the public actually get their own channel/show, and call it UGN – I’ll be angry!
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