We were pleased when the BBC banned the use of the phrase electoral “reform” in its coverage of the referendum on whether to change the voting system. “Reform” is indeed too positive a word, as the corporation decided, to be used in supposedly neutral reporting by its journalists ahead of the referendum due on 5 […]
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Stop the BBC pensions robbery
Nov 8th, 2010 by Andy Newman.The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) website carries a series of reports with some brilliant pictures of picket lines around the country. The strikes involved over 4000 BBC staff. The dispute concerns the new “pay more, receive less” pensions scheme, that will leave many BBC staff tens or even hundreds of thousands of pounds worse off […]
