{"id":1349,"date":"2011-07-19T06:35:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T11:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2011-07-19T06:35:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T11:35:29","slug":"bbc-strikes-in-light-of-murdoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/bbc-strikes-in-light-of-murdoch\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC strikes in light of Murdoch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(Source: The Guardian<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Sometimes it’s easy to figure out which side people are on \u2013 the strikers and their union, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) are on one side \u2013 as are the other unions in the BBC and outside. At the rallies at the BBC’s Bush House and Television Centre, NUJ General Secretary Michelle Stanistreet read out a strong solidarity statement from her Public and Commercial Services union equivalent Mark Serwotka \u2013 one of many messages from other unions. Also on the side of the BBC are Labour MP and chair of the NUJ parliamentary group, John McDonnell, and former MP and NUJ Member of Honour, Tony Benn, who joined NUJ members on the picket line.<\/p>\n

On the other side, for quite a long time, has been the Murdoch empire, chipping away at support for the BBC, particularly in parliament. However, the events of the last few days have shown the irony of the closing line of James Murdoch’s 2009 MacTaggart lecture: “The only reliable, durable, and perpetual guarantor of independence is profit.” The craven pursuit of profit by the company of which he’s boss led to the phone hacking scandal that has shocked and disgusted so many and so damaged his family’s empire.<\/p>\n

…[T]he NUJ, on the eve of the strike, called for the licence fee deal to be re-examined in the light of revelations surrounding the influence of Rupert Murdoch and his News International executives on David Cameron and senior government ministers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article in The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: The Guardian) Sometimes it’s easy to figure out which side people are on \u2013 the strikers and their union, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) are on one side \u2013 as are the other unions in the BBC and outside. At the rallies at the BBC’s Bush House and Television Centre, NUJ General Secretary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[473,352,424,446],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","tag-bbc-strikes","tag-bbc-world-service-cuts","tag-bbcws-cuts","tag-national-union-of-journalists"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-lL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1480,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/bbc-strike-could-affect-world-service-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":1349,"position":0},"title":"BBC strike could affect World Service today","author":"Thomas","date":"August 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"It appears some BBC journalists, as of 23:01 UTC (Sunday), have gone on the strike we mentioned previously. 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