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Despite Northcliffe making £100 Million profits and upping its
directors pay by 48%, they still want more and so have implemented
a neo-Labour sounding scheme called Aim Higher to make an
additional £25 million by cutting jobs and journalism. “The Mail
on Sunday called Andy Gilchrist, the fire union leader, a "fat cat"
for his £82,000 salary. The Mail on Sunday's editor-in-chief, Paul
Dacre, receives a basic yearly salary of £690,000. Who's fat?”
Wrote Paul Foot in the The Guardian – indeed!
It is of note that this attack on local media won’t good coverage
in the commercial press in Bristol – because the people with the
scissors own all the press! Sites like Bristol Indymedia are
needed more than ever to provide us with access to information –
the lifeblood of any democratic system.
You can protest the cuts by contacting the MD of Northcliffe,
Michael Pelosi – email aimhigher@nng.co.uk
There is also an article on BIMC related:
http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=24133
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17.08.2005 16:50
Tony Gosling
Homepage: http://www.radiodialect.net
So let me get this right...
17.08.2005 17:02
Clearly, you have nothing to lose but your chains. Your marbles went long ago.
Zorro
i don't think so
17.08.2005 18:08
wondering
NUJ ? who you trying to kid
17.08.2005 18:38
There is not one honest journalist amoungst any of it's members for any journalist with even one ounce of integrety left the Pro NL (new Labour) driven excuse for a union the years ago.
They have twisted and conspired with the state to force the police in to exluding journalists from events or incidents who refuse to join on grounds of concience with the orwellian PRESS CARD system, no card = no entry, if it were not for this goverment nuj partnership card scam then most would have joined the hundreds who have dumped them already.
DOWN ! the NUJ with it's goverment mouthpiece servants.
UP ! independent unbiased uncontrolled by the state journalism
dolly the sheeple
Opposing the corporate media
17.08.2005 18:59
IMC, as far as I can tell, isn't just to report the stories and discuss the issues that the corporate media don't get around to doing for themselves. It's based on a broad anti-corporate critique which identifies the corporate media as one of the key agents of capitalism.
While poor pay may be one of the problems of capitalism for workers and union activity one response, I still don't see how you can defend workers' rights at such an organisation from an anti-capitalist position. These aren't minimum-wage contract cleaners, they're the journos themselves.
Daily Mail group might not report this story well or at all, but I'm quite sure their competitors will do so with glee.
Zorro
this is the point of IMCs
18.08.2005 09:06
Plus anything in opposition to the bosses of daily mail must be a good thing! This issue goes beyond journos in the mail to all workers being treated badly - solidarity people!
notty
What is this shit !
18.08.2005 10:06
Fuck off with your wank postings
corporate media hater