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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 12:17 AM
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BBC news in crisis as axe hits 350 staff (News? ... Who needs news?)
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1361284,00.html

BBC news in crisis as axe hits 350 staff

Vanessa Thorpe and James Robinson
Sunday November 28, 2004
The Observer

The BBC is to axe around 350 people from its news operation, around 15 per cent of staff, as part of swingeing cuts to be announced by director general Mark Thompson early next month.

The service, frequently described as being 'at the core' of the publicly-funded organisation, will be cut back as part of a purge of up to 6,000 jobs across all departments.

The BBC's new head of news, Helen Boaden, has been told to make the redundancies to slim down her 3,000-strong newsroom.

'This is going to affect the standard of the product, even if viewers and listeners don't notice the effects at first,' said one senior journalist. 'Morale will take a bit of a knock again.'

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Gloria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 12:20 AM
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1. Jeez, I only listen to the BBC world service and other foreign
broadcasts because of the crap we have here!

NOW WHAT????
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 12:25 AM
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2. You can bet that blond bimbo
who replaced the middle eastern newscaster and spent all her time gushing over Bush the last two weeks of his campaign won't get the axe.

They'll likely only sack the competent newscasters who care about truth and think for themselves.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 12:29 AM
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3. Katty Kay seems to have replaced Mishal Husain (sp?)
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NuttyFluffers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 07:05 AM
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14. whatever happened to Darjit Dallewal?
i used to love her reporting. or was that DW...
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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 12:32 AM
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4. Gore's news network needs to pick up some staff...nt
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ogradda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 12:32 AM
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5. maybe they can get jobs as ass kissing so-called intelligence agents
i heard the cia is hiring.
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VivaKerry Donating Member (609 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 12:32 AM
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6. And this is where George Soros and AAR come in
Grab up every single one of the BBC'ers... and put them to work... REAL news.
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 12:40 AM
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7. Great,
the Bushification of Britian is going into high gear. I've always been an Anglophile and this breaks my heart.
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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 12:45 AM
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8. that happened to NBC,ABC.and CBS years ago......news depts
were deeply cut......became more entertainment than news
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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 12:58 AM
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9. Very bad news. nt
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 01:05 AM
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10. Tandem attack in information * screws CIA; Blair screws BBC. Clever
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 06:19 AM
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11. Not good! n/t
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Briar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 06:39 AM
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12. This should be read together with news about the charter negotions
I suspect:

Government lays down law to BBC on reporting news

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=587260
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 01:09 PM
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15. Thanks! It's certainly relevant! Bliar's gov't babbles about ...
"strengthening" BBC news reporting while simultaneously restricting revenue to force major staff cutbacks.
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rooboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 06:56 AM
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13. Anybody notice how FOX...
has hired one or two British-accented types to try and add an air of respectability to their shit little network?

I don't expect them to hire any of the real ones who'll become available.
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