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Olympic site tells it like it is

By Lester Haines • Get more from this author

Posted in Music and Media, 5th July 2010 09:01 GMT

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The launch of a BBC "World Olympic Dreams" site over the weekend went slighty awry when outraged netizens spotted a rather unflattering description of Facebook users in the "half-baked" effort:

BBC Olympic website inviting readers to "become a saddo on Facebook"

Spot on, although the site has sadly now been purged of all such "unfortunate" holding text and pretty much everything else, as you can see here.

There's more on the scandal down at The Media Blog. ®

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Thanks to Mark Finn for forwarding screen grabs yesterday.

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