Unions to ballot on BBC strike

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4438667.stm

Surprised nobody pointed this out yet ...

i think it'll all kick off next week. especially if itv continue with their strikes (their excess programmes coming to the beeb)

what with the sale of broadcast and resources it should be an interesting time...

As it's got nothing to do with television news or news presentation, it's not that surprising that no-one's mentioned it here yet...!

When you bear in mind a strike could wipe out TV news, and all the presentation alongside it, I think it has an awful lot to do with it actually.

Add to that the fact that 15% of the news workforce - journalists and tech jobs - are being axed, did you not think it might *just* maybe have an affect on the output too???

That's a pretty tenuous link really.

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This thread isn't directly related to television news or presentation. A strike could also take out all the other non-news TV channels and radio stations, and there are more of those than there are BBC news outlets, so I'm still struggling to understand why this is considered so relevant to news presentation specifically, and therefore why you consider this a suitable place for it to be discussed.

It's relevant to the BBC, but the BBC is about more than just news, and while news employees are being affected by the cuts, the savings axe is hanging over every department in the corporation, not just News. Using BBC News employees as the vital missing link between a news presentation discussion forum and the discussion of a strike stemming from job cuts that affect far more departments beyond News is tenuous at best.

Ok. In that case when News 24 goes off air or starts showing repeats of Hardtalk, we'll remember not to discuss it at all.

Erm... but that is related to a news channel. Are you being deliberately irritating, or are you just stupid?

What I was saying is that the ballot of a strike - albeit one that relates to cuts in News, and every other BBC department - has nothing directly to do with news presentation, news channels, or anything that should be discussed in this forum. Can you not see that?

It's the same as if somebody were to post a thread about the licence fee increasing by £x. Although some of that money will be allocated to news, and will fund N24, and will be spent on news presentation, the money's going to be spent across the BBC. It's something that affects the whole corporation, and has nothing to do with news directly. Of course, once that money is spent on a new look for BBC News for example, or presentation innovations, then it will be perfectly appropriate to discuss it.

I'm staggered that you don't see the distinction there, and that you came up with such a ridiculous comment.

LDN, were you wearing a traffic warden's uniform when you wrote that?

The ballot for strike action is more than likely going to lead to a "yes" vote. This will affect news more than other output as it is by it's very nature, all live.

I was wearing nothing but an outrageously large Stetson hat, roughly three metres wide. However, I stand by my original comments.

Don't get caught in a draught. According to your signature image you've got enough difficulty holding a baseball cap in place.

I'm sorry, but you are simply doing this to arse me off.

Like a previous poster said, when the entire of the BBC walks out, since it has no direct relevance to TV presentation we'll remember not to talk about it.

You stand by your comments, and I'll stand by mine that I think this thread is valid.

Now, if you don't like it go post someplace else and stop quoting the forum rules *as you see them*. That's the job of the mods, and you're not one of them.

Oh the irony, LDN. Oh the irony.