BBC cuts back programmes and jobs

[mogster]

Source: BBC

BBC TV audiences can expect more repeats and fewer original programmes, under plans to reduce the size of the corporation revealed on Thursday.
Up to 1,800 staff will also be made redundant - primarily in news, BBC programme-making and regional centres.

The BBC will also sell-off its flagship Television Centre, under the plans to make up a £2bn budget shortfall.

But unions are threatening strike action if the corporation calls on staff to volunteer for redundancy.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7050440.stm

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This does not bode well for the future of news reporting.

[rurallib]

1. Murdoch will be buying them next.

[sybylla]

2. This is very bad news

The BBC seems to be the last bastion of independent thought in this world still big enough to make a difference.

[Selatius]

3. It sounds like they're trying to kill it off, leaving just corporate-owned news outlets.

That way, they can bend the information any way they wish as far as television news goes. It's like what the right wing has been trying to do with Amtrak for years here in the US.