22 Responses to BBC STRIKE SOLIDARITY

  1. Dick the Prick says:
    November 6, 2010 at 6:56 pm

    Liberal Conspiracy are fantastically ironic about it all. Paul Mason = High Priest! I genuinely thought the news was delivered in a much more professional manner. Bravo!

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  2. Gosh says:
    November 6, 2010 at 7:09 pm

    Really surprised at how little difference it has made…let them strike, who cares.

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  3. hippiepooter says:
    November 6, 2010 at 8:43 pm

    How Labour must be missing their fix of BBC propaganda.

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  4. Stuart says:
    November 6, 2010 at 9:52 pm

    Its definitely improved since they have been on strike. Peace…I like it – no opinions just facts. And I like the choice of song.

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  5. George R says:
    November 6, 2010 at 9:54 pm

    “BBC’s top stars in bitter split over strike”

    [Extract]:

    “Michael Crick, the political editor on Newsnight, which was scrapped on Friday, said: ‘I haven’t listened to the Today programme. I regard listening to or watching the BBC as strike breaking.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8115210/BBCs-top-stars-in-bitter-split-over-strike.html

    Spare a thought, striker Crick, for the British people who subsidise you and your ilk to produce your political propaganda and who you expect to tolerate it.

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  6. John Anderson says:
    November 6, 2010 at 10:22 pm

    And the delectable Charlotte Green is stil reading the news bulletins on Radio 4 !

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  7. Philip says:
    November 7, 2010 at 10:47 am

    I’d just like to say that I’m a full supporter of the BBC strike and I think all remaining colleagues should join their striking brothers as soon as practicable; and that it should last as long as possible.

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  8. TrueToo says:
    November 7, 2010 at 11:08 am

    Ah yes, the incomparable Simon and G, who brought such listening pleasure to so many worldwide. Unfortunately Simon’s musical, Songs from the Capeman, at which he had worked long and hard, was a total flop on Broadway. The album of the same name, with Simon performing some of the songs and music, is superb but relatively unknown – no doubt mainly due to the Broadway flop:

    http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Capeman-1997-Concept-Album/dp/B000002NJ3

    The Capeman, Salvadore Agron, was a Puerto Rican gang member who stabbed two white youths from a rival gang to death in New York sometime in the 1950s. The songs eulogise him while disparaging – in extremely bitter terms – the justice system that jailed him for life. Apparently the musical flopped because it was a poor production, but could also be because few people were interested in the glorification of a murderer who rehabilitated himself in prison all those years ago. I guess it just didn’t resonate in 1997 New York.

    Simon is a radical leftie. He almost cancelled his 1990 tour of South Africa because a member of a black group he was due to perform with was killed in a confrontation with a cop.

    But I forgive him his leftieness and realy appreciate him for his music.

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    • deegee says:
      November 8, 2010 at 5:58 pm

      You’re a bit hard on Paul Simon. He’s a New York Jew which stereotypically means Democrat supporter but in 1990 Apartheid was still in force in South Africa and his appearance at Sun City in what was then the Bophuthatswana bantustan earned him lots of flack from the anti Apartheid movement. 

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  9. burbette123 says:
    November 7, 2010 at 12:41 pm

    How wonderful to hear just the news and nothing but the news. No snotty, uninformed opinions from the likes of semi-educated, overpaid morons like Humphrys, Webb, et al.  Three cheers for the strike.  Proof that al-beeb should be banned from anything but simple fact presentation, entertainment, etc.  Now let’s bring on the adverts!  They’ll pay their own way with less time for bias.

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  10. John Anderson says:
    November 7, 2010 at 1:45 pm

    The Mail on Sunday and the Sunday Telegraph have main front-page stories on the BBC strike,  focussing on splits in the ranks – eg Evan Davies “crossing the picket line”.  

    Long may the bitter dissent among NUJ members continue.   This strike looks set to run and run.

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  11. George R says:
    November 7, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    “BBC boss apologises after signing protest letter against BSkyB buyout”

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/nov/07/mark-thompson-apology-bskyb-letter

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  12. George R says:
    November 7, 2010 at 11:43 pm

    Can it be that BBC-NUJ’s Europe correspondent, Gavin Hewitt, has been doing some independent thinking about significant political changes in Germany (something rarely attempted by his predecessor in the job, M.Mardell)?

    The following is certainly an improvement, as a reflection of political
    concerns in Germany:

    “How Sarrazin’ s immigration views touched a German nerve”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/gavinhewitt/2010/11/how_sarrazin_s_immigration_vie.html

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    • John Anderson says:
      November 8, 2010 at 1:31 am

      …..but will any of his colleagues draw the same conclusions about the utter failure of Muslim integration in the UK ?  Not just failure to integrate – active hostility to the host country,  ranging from objecting to everything about us to – in some cases already,  and how many more to come ? – hatred that turns into murderous violence.

      Every so often we hear that MI5 are tracking some 2000 possible terrorist plots or plotters HERE in the UK.  That seems to me to be a fairly serious issue.  Worthy, for instance,  of a Panorama investigation,  or some detailed discussion on the Today programme.

      There seems to be some power of veto withing the BBC.  “Don’t talk about the terrorists among us”

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  13. George R says:
    November 8, 2010 at 8:08 am

    This morning’s personnel doing the ‘Today’ shift comprises strike-breakers Evans and Montague; presumably, later in the week, we will be treated to strike-promoting Beeboids on ‘Today’.
    When will we get a friendly pairing of ‘Today’ strike-breakers and strike-promoters on ‘Today’ again?
    The next  BBC-NUJ strike is in under 2 weeks; and then the next one is over Xmas and New Year, when ‘Today’ and ‘Newsnight’ are off anyway.

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  14. George R says:
    November 8, 2010 at 8:14 am

    “So journalists at the BBC went on strike? That’s news to me ”

    (Boris Johnson)

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/8116584/So-journalists-at-the-BBC-went-on-strike-Thats-news-to-me.html

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