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BEEB Bosses are “beyond stupid,” union leaders have said amid plans to keep slashing journalists’ jobs while doling millions out to management.
The broadcaster’s year-on-year layoffs, mothballed programmes and budget cuts — branded “Delivering Quality First” — have long rankled the National Union of Journalists.
But general secretary Michelle Stanistreet voiced disbelief yesterday at a fresh purge of some 500 posts in News and the World Service, with most axed by April of next year — only to advertise 266 new vacancies.
IAN SINCLAIR examines the curious memory lapses across liberal media when it comes to British government crimes
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR