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CITIZENS ALERTED

The BBC is on strike, but coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show will still go ahead. Repeat: Coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show will still go ahead.

Posted by Tim B. on 05/23/2005 at 07:27 AM

  1. How do they cover that?

    announcer: and still no movement from the Thames end, but wait, we have movement, we have movement, a sunflower has just raised its head. Nothing happening in the beds and right now over to Jonathan at the pansys.

    Posted by Nic on 2005 05 23 at 08:34 AM • permalink

  2. What if nobody asks the BBC to come back to work, ever?

    Posted by m on 2005 05 23 at 08:49 AM • permalink

  3. I think John Howard should take a leaf out of Tony Blair’s book and start examining the Australian version of the BBC, the ABC.  Old Aunty aint blossoming any more and might need a prune too.

    Posted by Stevo on 2005 05 23 at 09:29 AM • permalink

  4. Great opportunity! Advertise two channels, all buildings and equipment for sale and pay the proceeds to the license fee payers.

    Posted by jorgen on 2005 05 23 at 10:34 AM • permalink

  5. Jorgen,
    Damn just my luck, I avoid paying the license fee to the charter breaking institutionally collectivist BBC.

    Posted by Rob Read on 2005 05 23 at 12:02 PM • permalink

  6. Strikes by media people are fascinating things.  Let me see if I understand this correctly; large numbers of BBC personnel leave their jobs to protest a reduction in force to demonstrate that I, the consumer, discover that my life can carry on just fine without their services.  Or maybe this is management’s plan to clearly demonstrate that 4,000 redundancies are too few.

    And if the BBC gave Jeremy Paxman his walking papers for siding with the wildcat strikers, where’s he going to go next?  Gosh, it appears there may be a downside to the government having a virtual monopoly on the media after all—even for Jeremy Paxman.

    Posted by c. austin on 2005 05 23 at 12:02 PM • permalink

  7. where’s he going to go next?

    the commo arse bandits at Channel 4 will be more than happy to hand Paxman a paypacket.

    Posted by murph on 2005 05 23 at 05:19 PM • permalink

  8. Most reporters can be diverted by a short telepathic message like “please investigate nearby pub”, but not those Flower Show Reporters! Once they are locked on and tracking, there is no way to recall them.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 05 23 at 05:23 PM • permalink

  9. Priorities after all, people.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 05 23 at 08:41 PM • permalink

  10. Thank God we’ll still get warning when the Triffids attack…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 24 at 12:22 AM • permalink

  11. Paxman may be a preening prat, but he deserves credit for giving George Galloway a roasting:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/blog/4519553.stm

    Posted by cuckoo on 2005 05 24 at 03:19 AM • permalink

  12. Agreed, he did stand up there!

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 05 24 at 04:59 AM • permalink

  13. I must say that although I don’t agree with anything George Galloway believes in, I find him very entertaining. There aren’t many politicians in the world so theatrical and so demagogic and with his gift of the gab. When he bristles with indignation and self-importance, he is actually quite charismatic. I think he ran rings around Paxman, in the same way he did the US Senate.

    Posted by mr magoo on 2005 05 25 at 01:49 AM • permalink

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