Tweets, trolls and tots
Red Lines
BBC
4.4 • 78 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The double-edged sword of social media
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| 0:00.0 | Well, welcome to Red Lines Episode 5. We have two familiar voices, John Campbell and Gareth Gordon, with us today, but two new voices to introduce to the programme as well. Jane McCormick, political reporter, who's been off getting married. Congratulations. |
| 0:13.9 | I picked a really good time to go off. Thank you. Yeah, I'm back in time for more fun. |
| 0:17.8 | And Claire Rice, who's been finishing her PhD at Queen's, congratulations. |
| 0:21.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:22.5 | And it's very nice to have you both with us. |
| 0:24.2 | We're going to talk about social media and the challenges of social media, because there are plenty of those, I think it's fair to say. |
| 0:34.0 | And, Gareth, really just to kick off the conversation today, you found yourself at the |
| 0:38.1 | centre of a bit of a Twitter storm for tweeting about the SDLP's Nicola Malin when she was going in |
| 0:45.1 | to visit the Secretary of State at Hillsborough Castle the other day. Little did you know what you were |
| 0:49.3 | started. What I was doing. I never know what I'm doing, but certainly didn't know what I was doing. |
| 0:53.5 | Yeah, perfectly ordinary Friday morning at the end of when it was a busy week. |
| 0:57.7 | The Secretary of State, Julian Smith, was having quite early talks with the parties at Hillsborough Castle. |
| 1:04.3 | The Ulster Unionists had been in, the Alliance Party had been in, and then it was the turn of the SDLP. |
| 1:12.8 | So Colm Eastwood arrived a little bit before Nicola |
| 1:14.7 | Malin spoke to him and then he went in |
| 1:16.9 | and then Nicola Malin turned up and I was |
| 1:18.7 | talking to her and suddenly she opened the boot of the |
| 1:20.8 | car and got a buggy out and I thought |
| 1:22.9 | this isn't normal |
| 1:24.4 | when I wait outside |
| 1:26.1 | buildings to see talks and suddenly then she got a seven |
| 1:31.1 | month old Emmett her third child out of the back seat and put Emmett in the buggy and I thought I've waited |
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