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Catch the little tidbit at the end:
What are these guys, undercover US college professors?
I’m a little surprised they didn’t voice their support for Mugabe, too.
Some interesting comments on this, some from members of the union, here: http://tinyurl.com/yvpnj9
Notably absent from all of them: “I’m quitting this Nazi-ass union.” So European.
Reminds one of the Three Stooges.
Their concern for their own membership is lacking.
Meanwhile, back in the open sewer,
Palestinians Murder BBC Reporter?
Developing….
Suddenly, I have the burning urge to buy a Desert Eagle..
TW: too69. No kidding.
I noted the bit about Aosdana member ‘artists’ are paid by the government.
So how bad has the art gotten?
I’m guessing membership is compulsory.
Really, it was so much more sporting of the Jews to just lie back and take it. Frightfully crass of them to fight back. Not cricket at all.
Guess not.
This looks like the deal here. As a journalist, you probably want to have a national press card, and the union gives out more than half of them. If you don’t get your card from the union you have to get it from one of the organizations listed here, but many of them look to be proprietary.
But…
So BoZ is right … looks like they are free to quit and stop paying dues if they feel strongly enough, but something tells me that would be a problematic career move.
Odd. If Israel’s “army had been defeated by Hezbollah” as this vote proclaims….there would be no left Israel to boycott. Taking Hezbollah at their word, that is.
I wish our journalists over here would go on the record as forthrightly.
Also I think Pablo’s point should be underscored. If that BBC guy is dead I’d say were somewhat past irony and into Jungian territory.
Preach it brother!
Talk about un-sporting—it’s no fair. The comment code strips out <p align=”right”> for us plebes, but Jeff can use “center” <effect mode=”pout”>
Regards,
Ric
What this situation calls for is a modern-day Tom Wolfe to give us a first-hand account of the proceedings, ala “Radical Chic.” I’d like to know how dedicated these scribblers are to offering their throats, and those of their nation, up to the knives of Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
After an hour of debate, a motion to sever the boycott clause from the condemnation motion was adopted. The motion condemning Israel’s “savage” behavior toward Palestinian civilians in the wake of “the defeat of its army” by Hizbullah passed by a wide margin.
WTF? Shit or get off the pot. Will you people please do something meaningful Evidently, I am going to light a fire under some butts. Shameful.
As usual, it’s a mixture.
On the one hand you have journalists such as Farzad Bazoft, who was a reporter working for the Observer when he was hanged by Saddam Hussein for spying. (He had collected dirt samples from outside a suspect site).
On the other hand, you have these clowns from the South Yorkshire chapel who are able to push through the sort of juvenile motion a 70’s Trot would have been ashamed to run past his Students’ Union.
In general it is still difficult to work in unionised industries in the United Kingdom without being a member of the union.
Margaret Thatcher and Rupert Murdoch did a lot to castrate these latter day barons, but under the Blair regime the little rodents have grown daily more courageous, and sometimes, as on this occasion, they actually emerge, blinking, into the light of day.
Bring on the Warfarin.
I liked the part where the dissenter mentioned Oompa Loompa Land. He was the only one who seemed to really get it.
Self-important fucks.
Of course it is, comrade… After all, it’s in your best interests to give us money for telling you what you can and cannot do. Else, who knows what trouble you could create for The Glorious Revolution Of The Proletariat(TM), eh?
{/Union boss}
Gotta love the educated Britisher
Eventually they’ll come around, but they like to make it as hard as possible on themselves.
I was thinking about this topic this weekend. I had been re-reading “The Maltese Falcon” and that got me to thinking about one of my favorite authors, Dasheill Hammett and his actions with the Screen Writer’s Guild. How much of a Stalinist Hammett was and how he flat out lied to HUAC. Of course, he didn’t “name names” so he was a “hero”.
Fifty years from now, we’ll have documentation of who these people are really working for and still most people will refuse to believe it.
On a somewhat related note:
No, this didn’t take long:
Wretchard concludes:
Journalists taken for fools? Imagine!
Journalists incapable of grasping tremendously obvious fact? Pathetic. And dangerous.