91ȱ in the news, Wednesday
| 10:16 UK time, Wednesday, 21 February 2007
The Herald: “The 91ȱ came in for a cyclone of criticism yesterday after a weatherman described the Western Isles as ‘nowheresville’.” ()
The Guardian: “91ȱ staff campaigning against the proposals for adverts on 91ȱ.com have made a final call for the director general, Mark Thompson, to abandon the scheme.” ()
Daily Mail: Reports that 91ȱ security correspondent Frank Gardner, who has been wheelchair-bound since being shot by al-Qaeda in 2004, presented a report standing up. ()
Comments
Perhaps the 91ȱ staff who are complaining about proposals to put adverts on the 91ȱ site (international only I understand) would be happy to take a pay cut instead?
They should realise that a large proportion of the public objects to the license fee and is annoyed that what WE have to pay for is given away to the world.
"...Western Isles as "nowheresville.""
91ȱ doesn't care who it offends even if it does it without apparant purpose. The reason, it just wants to prove that it can whenever it likes and do it with impunity. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Nobody in the English speaking media has more power than 91ȱ. In Britain, it has a near monopoly on electronic media. It doesn't get more corrupt or more subtle about how it does it anywhere else. If the people of "nowheresville" had a real choice, they'd tune their TVs and radios elsewhere for the news.
I voted on the road pricing u gov site and am still awaiting my reply as promised by Tony Blair how many others have not recieved there replies, this could be a good news item maybe we were all lied to and no emails at all have been sent.