Forum » Topic: BBC cost-cutting leads to 80's news repeats on Falklands http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=159 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 08:25:29 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php jp1885 on "BBC cost-cutting leads to 80's news repeats on Falklands" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=159#post-459 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:09:14 +0000 jp1885 459@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yep - nice little sub this! </p> sauce on "BBC cost-cutting leads to 80's news repeats on Falklands" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=159#post-455 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:59:31 +0000 sauce 455@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good one, Ed </p> ED209 on "BBC cost-cutting leads to 80's news repeats on Falklands" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=159#post-451 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:18:13 +0000 ED209 451@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The BBC was today accused of excessive cutbacks, as news on the Falklands War and the Ethiopian famine was repeated nearly 30 years after it was first broadcast.</p> <p>The director-general claimed that the organisation was committed to delivering "classic and modern bulletins in its News programmes", and denied that repeating items every 30 years was excessive. Supporters of the repeats have pointed out that re-runs of the Germans invading Europe provided the mainstay of the BBC's news agenda in the 40's, and that US channels had been repeating news of Americans invading random countries every 5 years without complaint. </p>