NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS..

So, BBC journalists are on a 24-hour strike today and the BBC  news output is in bits.   It seems to be all about the proposal to make 2,000 compulsory redundancies over the next five years and immediately you begin to wonder why on earth they`ve got 2,000 journalistic posts to begin with.

I imagine the union protagonists believe that their strike will find sympathy with the licence payers who have no choice but to cough up the licence fee whether they watch the BBC or not.   In reality, however, I for one am breathing a hefty sigh of relief as, for once, no news really is good news.

It means we will be spared the outpourings of the overstaffed, over-managed, left-leaning, Europhile, global warming advocating, London and Salford-centric, metropolitan blinkered output from what is supposed to be an unbiased, balanced, neutral organisation.   

Could be a good day.