http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28645 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:26:35 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28645#post-80352 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:41:10 +0000 beau-jolly 80352@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well done on the ticker headline but I actually though the story was well worthy of publication. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28645#post-80345 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:11:51 +0000 borednow 80345@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>ah so that's why half the news at ten consisted of repeating the program that they'd shown about young alcoholics an hour earlier. Just thought it was nice to see some other person presenting it for a change, didn't realise they were on strike.<br /> Not like back in the day when strike action at the beeb meant 12 more hours of the test card then </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28645#post-80279 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:03:39 +0000 button 80279@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Brilliantly excellentish </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28645#post-80267 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:54:42 +0000 martin2381 80267@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Were they on strike? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28645#post-80260 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:40:02 +0000 Ostsee 80260@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The news got though, Pony Express does it again. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28645#post-80255 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:17:01 +0000 Griffin 80255@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>How we missed them. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28645#post-80250 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:43:33 +0000 Textbook 80250@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I think this might work better just as the headline. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28645#post-80237 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:11:55 +0000 Peter749400 80237@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44312000/jpg/_44312855_n6_skyline400.jpg"></p> <p>World events avoided happening and formed an orderly queue last night as the strike affecting BBC journalists continued. </p> <p>The millions affected by famine in southern Somalia joined Senators in the US Congress in silent anticipation of the end of the 24 hour industrial action, studiously avoiding doing or saying anything remotely newsworthy in tribute to the corporation's woes. Meanwhile a number of elderly politicians, actors and other celebrities who had planned to die suddenly today clung to life in solemn remembrance of the hundreds of BBC staffers who will now receive pensions worth little more than millions. "our death would mean nothing unless covered in obsessive detail on News 24" said a wheezing Bruce Forsyth.</p> <p>Politicians likewise put their differences aside as repeats of 'Birds on Sunday' replaced the Today Programme during the early morning slot on Radio 4. </p> <p>"It's the least we can do" explained Defence Secretary Liam Fox - "at a time when some journalists are facing cuts of up to 10% to their final salary pensions, the least that the country and indeed the world can do in recognition is to pause and put our fundamentally irreconcilable differences aside to remember the blighted National Union of Journalist time-servers". </p> <p>Meanwhile a flood which had been due to devastate Thailand was postponed until the corporation could get back on its feet. Similarly, terrorists who had been due to launch a suicide 'spectacular' in Turkey put their plans on hold. "Who wants to be martyr only on Sky News?" one commented. </p> <p>Commentators warned however that the emerging backlog of news could only be cleared by slipshod glossing over of key details and wholesale disregard of major global trends over the coming days. </p>