Monday, 1 August 2011

News Goes On Strike

Almost all of the world’s news has gone on strike in sympathy with BBC journalists, the nation's newsdesks reported today.

“We’re reduced to rewriting yesterday’s stories about the US budget crisis, crackdowns in Syria and the Norwegian gunman,” said one sub-editor. “If this keeps up, pretty soon we’ll run out of news completely and have to resort to filling our pages with ill-informed opinion pieces off the tops of our heads.”

“So it’s basically business as usual,” he added.

A spokesman for the striking news said: “”.

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