Stephen Cole - Appearing more on N24?

how old are you?

However old you are you are spectacularly uninformed.

The strike was one of the most successful and strongly supported in the history of broadcasting. It had the BBC management back in talks within 24 hours, something that several months of negotiation had failed to achieve.

You may be right about 40% of staff turning up. Unfortunately for the corporation they were all the bureaucrats and pen pushers who couldn't make a programme to save their life. Among the people who actually produce programmes the support was more like 95%

And don't worry about the money. We have all just had a massive payout from the BBC as it had been calculating our night pay wrongly since 1998. So we are all doing fine thanks

Well, it's nice to know our money is going to crackwhores like yourself.

Say "Hi!" to Kate when you see her.

Yeh, one has been in a doily!

How dare you. I don't take drugs.

I spent all mine on rent boys

Hmmmmmmm.........what a bizarre thread this has turned into. Poor Mr. Cole must be wondering what the hell he has done...........to deserve all this.


But now that someone has mentioned it - what is the going rate for a rent boy these days? Haha........


I think Cole should come back to newsreading on BBC World. He is vastly better than the likes of Kirsty Lang, David Eades and even David Jessel.


James

Ah yes, that's where the selective memory kicks in.

You got BBC management back in talks within 24 hours, and then achieved f*ck all.

Nothing changed except the timeline, something most observers would agree the BBC wouldn't have been too fussed about.

To claim the strike was a "sucess" is fanciful and shows signs of the lefties of the 70s and 80s- where people judged their achievement on how close they felt their to their 'comrades'.

It still doesn't change the fact the strikes achieved nothing.

And anonymously slagging off people who came into work to keep the BBC on the air does you all (Marcus, dog and yourself) no favours whatsoever.

Because- and you've really got to understand this- the british public REALLY don't care. They really don't care what a presenter is like in the newsroom as long as they are semi-literate when reading the news.

That's all that matters.

So slag him off to get street cred amongst your 'comrades' but we all frankly couldn't give a flying f*ck, other than to say that some of your comments may land this board should the aforementioned presenter choose to view them.

Would you mind awfully speaking for yourself, and not ALL of us on this board?

yes, i'd rather speak for myself, rather than letting a 14 year old norman tebbit post on my behalf. perhaps dumbedin ought to step outside the classroom and into the real world.

Actually, Norman Tebbit is a really nice guy.

Maybe Dunthinkin was hit on the head by a picket when young. He seams to have an irrational hatred of strikes and strikers.

You couldn't be further from the truth.

Perhaps I got a bit carried away (no more so than those anonymously slagging off a presenter on a public forum), but the implications of your words are that you really do care about a presenter's interactions with other staff off camera.

Do you really? And if so why?

A constructive comment would be a surprising treat.