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| | New Statesman: Too many scabs: the BBC survived industrial action surprisingly well (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Jim Buchanan, the correspondent assigned to cover the strike, got an interview with the director general, Mark Thompson, but for the union side he had to rely on a speech delivered through a megaphone by Jeremy Dear of the NUJ. |
 | | Dear was caught in the trap of being unable to cross his own picket line in order to explain his case to a journalist who had already done so. |
 | | There was even something a little refreshing about its wartime austerity, just as it was a relief, in some ways, to slump in front of a Timewatch about bearded men digging up a coliscum in Chester, rather than Newsnight. |
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