Do you support the BBC industrial action today?

Blacklight

Just curious to gauge opinion.

A._Badger

I certainly do! The longer the biased BBC stays off the air, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Ohhhhh, so that's why the news is so much better and less gimmicky today.

amcluesent

Even for 24 hours it's a relief to be spared the usual BBC propaganda that's it's unspeakably wicked to expect people to work for a living and why we must always provide oral-relief to Islamists.

PasturesNew

I don't know anything about industrial action, but they should be lucky they have a job. A job with good money, good conditions, probably a good pension ... and they often get to hobnob.

As a side note, when I was at secretarial college back in the days when we used manual typewriters, one girl in my class was going to work at the BBC in London as a Junior Secretary.... I wasn't allowed to go to London. Her starting salary was £2,600, I got £3,000 as a PA/Secretary locally (although I had worked every school holiday in offices since I was about 15 and also had the highest scores/speeds in all subjects at college). I wonder if she's still there... can't even remember her name.

Loughton_Monkey

I've just posted on a similar thread that the Industrial Action could have been averted.

Apparently, it's because any pension contributions have been ''capped" at 1% irrespective of pay rise amounts.

Now personally, I wouldn't have capped it at all. I'd simply never pay this bunch of left-wing, lazy, prima-donna, whinging, self-seeking, self-righteous, money-grabbing, expense-fiddling, overpaid, under-worked, w*nkers a single penny extra.

Ever.

treliac

Don't really care. I was more aggravated by the tube strike on Wednesday.

But if we take away people's rights to withdraw their labour, we'll go back to the dark ages of total employee subservience.

Blacklight

Serves them right. I can't believe they have brass to complain that they're in the firing line.

A bit less of all this:



And bit less ramping of the bad news which was the cause of the change in public sentiment back in 2008 and they might have less to whine about now.

I recall several conversations at the time where I said that I hope these BBC doom mongers are happy when they get what they deserve. At the time they were killing off private sector business with their new fancy logo, smiles and excitement that the UK was on the verge of catastrophe, all public sector workers were sitting pretty completely unaffected.

Not so funny now is it Bill and Sian?

Loughton_Monkey

At least having 48 hours off gives them time to reflect.

1. Peston might get that huge chip off his shoulder.
2. Some bright spark in the financial section could read a bit, and learn that the capital of India is now Mumbai (and not Bombay).
3. They can work out a way of broadcasting, say, the 8:30 GDP figures slightly quicker than 2 p.m.

Most of all, perhaps they will learn that "Balance" can be achieved by offering rational, informed, correct, full and unemotional background to stories which give adequate coverage of pro's and cons. This would be rather more professional than offering 'tabloid', ill informed, naive, and brutal negative crticism - but thinking that "Balance" comes from doing it equally to left wing and right wing personalities!

I remember back in late 2009 (I think) a British man was executed in China for drug smuggling. Having lived in China, and knowing how strict they are on drugs, I found myself reading the BBC coments (and listening) in the lead-up to the execution. I recall my feeling that is came across as the rantings of a 'holier-than-thou' campaign, slagging off China, the Chinese, and anything else they could think of.

The Chinese actually executed the guy, and as part of their pompous coverage, they started a "Have your Say" rant on the subject.

I have never seen such an overwhelming proportion of comments that basically said "Tough. He deserved it."

Then I noticed that the BBC dropped the subject completely, never to be heard of again to my knowledge.

Graham_Devon

Blacklight wrote: »

Serves them right. I can't believe they have brass to complain that they're in the firing line.

A bit less of all this:



And bit less ramping of the bad news which was the cause of the change in public sentiment back in 2008 and they might have less to whine about now.

I recall several conversations at the time where I said that I hope these BBC doom mongers are happy when they get what they deserve. At the time they were killing off private sector business with their new fancy logo, smiles and excitement that the UK was on the verge of catastrophe, all public sector workers were sitting pretty completely unaffected.

Not so funny now is it Bill and Sian?

!!!!!! was that.

It's the BBC's fault for the change in public sentiment? BBC's fault for killing off private sector investment?

I thought we entered a recession, backed up by the GDP statistics, and that was the reason for the change in public sentiment.

Mindyou, you are probably correct. If the BBC hadn't have mentioned it, we'd probably have never noticed, and we'd all still be mewing, banks would have been lending at 140% by now as they too wouldn't have realised the issues, house prices would be on their merry way to an average of 300k, and everyone would have been happy ever after.

If only they have kept quiet, all those traders wouldn't have even realised the markets were tanking, all the banks would simply not have noticed they had no money, and would have kept lending even though some were basically insolvent.

Darn BBC.

Tigsteroonie

I just watched ITV's coverage of the strike. They mentioned that none of the familiar faces were on air today (Nicky Campbell, Sophie Rayworth) - but these familiar faces were nowhere to be seen on the picket line either. I hope they all enjoyed their extra holidays.