Posted on 03/02/2010 7:11:37 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
BBC staff revolt after spending cuts announced
BBC staff have reacted angrily to a package of proposed cuts, including the closure of BBC 6 Music and the Asian Network, outlined by the corporation's director general Mark Thompson.
By Urmee Khan, Digital and Media Correspondent
Published: 2:09PM GMT 02 Mar 2010
The plans to slash the BBC's radio, television and website services have been billed as the biggest shake-up the corporations 88-year history.
Mr Thompson's plans have been criticised by union leaders who say the BBC should be focusing on cutting executive pay rather than programmes and content.
Union leaders will meet Mark Thompson, on Wednesday but are already warning of strike action to fight the cuts.
Gerry Morrissey, general secretary of the broadcasting workers’ union Bectu, warned up to 600 jobs could go, saying that "these cuts are totally unnecessary and are purely politically motivated.
“It is obvious that the BBC is being bounced by its competitors and by the political climate ahead of the forthcoming general election" he said.
“Where is the licence fee payer in these discussions? What consideration is being shown to people who enjoy the services now put at risk? Where is the BBC’s commitment to delivering for the UK’s diverse audience and to reflecting in the make-up of its staff the multicultural UK?
“If, at the end of the 3-month consultation period, these same proposals are rubber-stamped by the BBC Trust, then BECTU will oppose the changes, along with any compulsory redundancies which are tabled, and we will seek the support of our members for industrial action.
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Paying the licence fee. But not, you know, by their own free will. So you unionized parasites can get stuffed.
What you said.
I hope they don’t cut the “Top Gear” staff and funding. One of the most non-PC things on television, and truckloads of cool cars you can’t get in the States.
Awwwwwww. Poor Auntie Beeb. (NOT!)
I went off Top Gear when they did a segment on the American South. It infuriated the hell out of me.
They have over 300 executives making BIG MONEY!!
The BBC going on strike is like the gay Castro district in San Francisco going on strike...no sane, decent person will miss it.
As for the American South episode, the wife and I are quite convinced that a bunch of it was staged, otherwise Clarkson and company would have not made it back to the UK.
As for the American South episode, the wife and I are quite convinced that a bunch of it was staged, otherwise Clarkson and company would have not made it back to the UK.
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LOL! Good point! ;-)
I suppose a lot of beer holding was going on eh?
Mick Hucknall to the BBC-— “Money’s Too Tight To Mention”
I hope they don’t cut the “Top Gear” staff and funding. One of the most non-PC things on television.
Absolutely! Jeremy Clarkson is fantastic! If this show goes away I hope that someone over here will offer him a job.
Watch from 40 to 50 minutes into it.
Do they still charge a license fee? I had thought that would become impractical with the advent of modern technology. It is not as easy for one of their Television Detector Vans to find you as it was back in the day when you had a big ol’ box of vaccuum tubs chucking out spurrious RF all over the place.
tubs = tubes
TV Detection Vans !!!!!!!!!
Totalitarianism at work.
UK has it first.
Calling George Orwell.
Oh, I forgot, he’s dead.
You killed him.
Starvation, believe it or not.
Don’t believe it? Google it.
Long live Catalonia and George Orwell, a free man fighting for freedom of the human race ....
Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia should be required reading for all mind-numbed “Liberal Arts” faculty and students. And everyone else, for that matter. A true picture of how Socialists/Communists really operate.
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