[Mark Felton]

"I deplore... the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them... These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our funtionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief... This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit." --Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, 1814. ME 14:46

[OldFriend]

Good news, good riddance, DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU ON THE WAY OUT!

[polemikos]

That'll show them! In fact, don't stop at a walk-out. Quit!

[BJClinton]

...staff pulled one BBC radio station off the air for a minute in protest.

That's it? One minute? Sheesh.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

When will they learn that the public doesn't want them on the air, to begin with?

[Servant of the 9]

Fire them all, Tony.

So9

[Arkinsaw]

Sounds like they are going down the path of yanking open their own wounds over and over hoping they will feel better. More power to em.

[Revolting cat!]

I've always said, there is no news like no news!

[.cnI redruM]

All 6 audience members missed BBC greatly.

[Numbers Guy]

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

I'm sure Clifford Irving got Howard Hughes' date of birth right, but that didn't mean Irving was anything more than a charlatan. Kind of like the Baathist Broadcasting Corporation.

[cripplecreek]

Did anybody mail a copy of this story to the NY times yet?

[Common Tator]

The BBC defending itself with public polls is like a con artist claiming innocence because his victims believed his con.

[dufekin]

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!"

[RiflemanSharpe]

The down side is?

[dirtboy]

BBC staff stop work in protest

I'm surprised that anyone noticed...

[VaBthang4]

They need to protest more often.

[End Times Sentinel]

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"

[randog]

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?

[Sloth]

He had offered his resignation, expecting the BBC's 12-strong board of governors to reject it, but they accepted it

ROTFL

[marshmallow]

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.

[blackie]

Abolish the BBC and privatize it!