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BBC staff stop work in protest (woo hoo!)
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| 1/31/04
| The Australian
Posted on 01/30/2004 10:14:14 AM PST by Mark Felton
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To: Servant of the 9
PM Blair, please call Lady Thatcher and have her explain what her friend President Reagan did in 1981 when faced with a similar mutiny. Hint: do a Google on PATCO.
}:-)4
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:35:19 AM PST
by
Moose4
(Yes, it's just an excuse to post more pictures of my kitten. Get over it.)
To: Mark Felton
And why don't they just privatize the BBC? That's right, the British government shouldn't pay one shilling for this garbage that they call "news!"
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:35:46 AM PST
by
dufekin
(Eliminate genocidal terrorist military dictator Kim Jong Il ASAP)
To: Mark Felton
The down side is?
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:36:33 AM PST
by
RiflemanSharpe
(An American for a more socially and fiscally conservation America!)
To: ErnBatavia
Lord (Mitch) Ryder
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:36:54 AM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: Mark Felton
BBC staff stop work in protest I'm surprised that anyone noticed...
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:37:04 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(Howard Dean - all bike and no path)
To: Pan_Yans Wife
Holy crow, media people using some integrity? Mark this date on your calendar!
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:37:12 AM PST
by
Excuse_My_Bellicosity
(If teachers didn't teach worthless subjects, who would?)
To: dufekin
Hmmmm BBC-PBS-NPR
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:37:15 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(.50 cal border fence)
To: Common Tator
The BBC defending itself with public polls is like a con artist claiming innocence because his victims believed his con. Yes, incredible. BBC brainwashes citizens with lies and then uses polls to indicate its innocence. This is a freaking do-loop.
To: Mark Felton
They need to protest more often.
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:53:43 AM PST
by
VaBthang4
(-He who watches over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps-)
To: Mo1
I think I heard that expression from some guy who served in Viet Nam......but I'm not quite sure.
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:54:32 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: .cnI redruM
Too bad for me. My cable company has BBC on it's lineup and WABC radio uses BBC news at the top of the hour at times during the day........
They're like a fungus, appearing where you least want them.
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:56:02 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: dufekin
Oh you would see a firestorm like never seen before if BBC was denied government funding.
Actually, now that they have been discredited they are about as credible as the New York Slimes, er Times.
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:57:35 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: ErnBatavia
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
To: Mark Felton
BBC staff stop work in protest
my lies!!! my lies!!!
where will i get my lies!!!
Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"
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posted on
01/30/2004 11:03:14 AM PST
by
End Times Sentinel
("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.")
To: Mark Felton
Mr Dyke had apologised for errors in the report but defended the BBC's right to cover the issue, noting that some aspects of the story were right.Like the author's name?
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posted on
01/30/2004 11:08:22 AM PST
by
randog
(Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
To: 50sDad
Some of the aspects of the story were right - like it was about weapons, not plagues of locusts, and Iraq, not Iran or Pakistan. They probably even got the by-lines right. Other than those facts, the rest was wrong.
"Please don't hate me because I'm making this up, I'm tryin' my best to please the listeners....."
These people are reprehensible.
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posted on
01/30/2004 11:10:51 AM PST
by
par4
To: Mark Felton
He had offered his resignation, expecting the BBC's 12-strong board of governors to reject it, but they accepted it ROTFL
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posted on
01/30/2004 11:14:10 AM PST
by
Sloth
(Why bother with fighting foreign enemies if we surrender to the domestic ones?)
To: Common Tator
thousands of staff around the country walked out in support of their deposed leaders and opinion polls showed many Britons thought the Hutton report into the death of weapons scientist David Kelly had been "a whitewash". Some 56 per cent of voters told a Daily Telegraph poll that law lord Brian Hutton was wrong to lay all the blame on the BBC, while 49 per cent agreed in another poll that the findings were "a whitewash".
The BBC defending itself with public polls is like a con artist claiming innocence because his victims believed his con.Lord Hutton will soon find his ratings are worse than those of Mr. Justice Thomas. A perfect example of Why Broadcast Journalism is Unnecessary and Illegitimate .
To: Mark Felton
As part of the privelege of owning a television in the UK, one is required to purchase and own an annual television licence. The price of which, is decreed by the state. A substantial part of this licence fee goes toward subsidising the BBC.
Being caught in possession of a television without a current licence will result in a substantial fine.
So it goes, in the British Socialist Isles.
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