Is this £20,000 film aimed at attracting developers to Haringey?

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on September 23, 2015 at 9:07

It's a slick production: but it's nevertheless an unnecessary vanity project that's come at a high price.

The Haringey Story (youtube)

The Youtube site allows comments. However, despite its having been viewed about a thousand times (currently), there's not a single comment there—or remaining.

I posted a note about the £20,000 cost, but it was deleted within 48 hours.

I suspect any comment that's "off message" will be deleted by PR Department apparatchiks. It'll be interesting to see if they allow any comment like "brilliant" "marvellous" "wonderful".

The comment suppression illustrates the brittleness and lack of confidence of those behind The Haringey Story.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on September 23, 2015 at 9:19

Just had a look and there are two comments. Is it your settings Clive?

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on September 23, 2015 at 9:37

Just had a look 10 mins after you posted, Michael, and 'no comments to display' is what I see (Windows 7/Chrome user). All the other Haringey council videos on Youtube that I've looked are flagged as 'comments disabled'.  

And this        is the icon/avatar shown next to the URL on the Haringey Youtube channel screen. As with the new website, the new logo/avatar works far better, to my eye, on a small screen like a smartphone than on a PC, though I'd prefer the formality of a recognisable typeface.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on September 23, 2015 at 9:50

Just looked again Gordon. Still shows two comments on my screen. I'm using an IPad if that makes any difference. I did Google "comments not visible on You Tube" and there seems to be a glitch where this happens for some people and not for others. I can't work out how to do screen shots so I've copied and paste the text I could see.

The Haringey story
haringeycouncil 959 views
COMMENTS • 2

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on September 23, 2015 at 10:07

Thank you: now looking at it on an Android phone, I can see what you can (now 3 comments) but not the comments themselves. I'm not going down the 'conspiracy theory' route!

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on September 23, 2015 at 10:13

Is it your settings Clive?

touché ;-)

I think one needs to be signed in to view.

It could be that Youtube is faithfully recording the number of comments made, just as the Haringey Story Boarders are deleting them (?).

Why not try posting something complimentary and see if that sticks?

We could be watching censorship in real time!

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P.S. There's something odd going on: in Safari I couldn't see any comments; when logged in with Chrome, I can still see my comment, but only my comment (?)

Here's my Screen Shot at 2015-09-23 at 10.17.32 :—

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on September 23, 2015 at 11:35

Just did it with a completely neutral "Just checking if this comments function works" and it came up fine. By the way, I would imagine that a lot of the 1,000 views were probably staff who clicked on the link in the email they were sent on Monday.
There is one really easy way to find out if your comment was deleted Clive; ask.

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on October 2, 2015 at 0:47

YESTERDAY's Ham & High Broadway has a front page story titled,

Elderly and the disabled were ‘airbrushed’—
Video also featured council’s own contractors 

The video is consistent with a pitch to developers: but possibly also, to young able-bodied homebuyers. I've attached the press story below and the continuation on page seven. It makes a point about the unrepresentativeness of the range of those featured and in some cases, a financial relationship with the Council.

In The Haringey Story, there's not a paragraph on the disabled or elderly.

However, there's no pretence at accuracy, documentary or representation: the H. Story is pure PR.

£20,000 worth.

Attachments:

• H&H Broadway 2015 Oct–1 front page—Council airbrush video.pdf, 2.2 MB

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