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	Michael Buerk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Duncan Buerk (born 18 February 1946) is a BBC journalist and newsreader, most famous for his reporting of the Ethiopian famine on 23 October 1984, which inspired the Band Aid charity record.
		Buerk was born in Solihull, and was educated at Solihull School.
		Buerk asserted in a Radio Times interview in August 2005 that the "shift in the balance of power between the sexes" has gone too far and that men are now little more than "sperm donors".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Buerk (417 words)

	What became of..... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Speaking from London Michael Buerk told Field Exchange "I was keen to travel to Mozambique where the nutritional status of the people was reaching an acute stage but as the country was so difficult to travel and film in, this proved impossible, I decided to go to Ethiopia instead".
		Michael Buerk added that "It was the numbers, some 85,000 in Mekele alone starving to death, and there was this feeling that apart from the few agencies working there no-one knew about this thing.
		Michael Buerk said that their shared experiences in Africa and "his ironic loss being killed in a news story he wasn't even covering" has had a profound impact on him.
	www.ennonline.net /fex/02/wo23.html (1180 words)

	Guardian \| The Guardian profile: Michael Buerk
		Michael Buerk, the veteran BBC presenter and acclaimed former foreign correspondent once described as "the most important journalist of the post-war period", had by the middle of this week become a "poor miserable old bat" thanks to some ill-judged comments on the merits of his female colleagues.
		That was the verdict of Anna Ford on Buerk's advance publicity for a Channel Five programme in which he bemoaned the fact that men have become mere "sperm donors" in a female-dominated society.
		Buerk and others of his generation habitually bemoan the demise of the informed, experienced newsreader.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5266110-103690,00.html (1543 words)

	Four Corners - 15/03/2004: Ethiopia: A Journey with Michael Buerk
		Not Sir Bob Geldof but Michael Buerk, the then BBC reporter whose urgent and passionate reporting of the Ethiopian famine inspired Geldof and shamed the world into action.
		Two decades on, Buerk returns to Ethiopia to present this compelling account of how millions of lives were saved by the power of television.
		Geldof remembers watching Buerk's story about the young nurse vested with the power of life and death: "She had become god-like, which is unbearable to put upon anyone at any point but certainly (one) so young in such devastating circumstances."
	www.abc.net.au /4corners/content/2004/s1138628.htm (430 words)

	Dear god, what is Michael Buerk ON? - @forums
		Newsreader Michael Buerk has said "almost all the big jobs in broadcasting are held by women" who "decide what we see and hear".
		Buerk added that the "shift in the balance of power between the sexes" had gone too far.
		Buerk added that it was time for society to admit there was a problem.
	www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=274351 (976 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| Correspondents \| Michael Buerk
		In his long and distinguished career in BBC News, spanning over 30 years, it is perhaps ironic that Michael Buerk is indelibly linked with just one story.
		Michael Buerk came to the BBC after an early career in newspapers, including the Daily Mail.
		Michael Buerk lives in Guildford with his wife, and has twin boys, who both now work as journalists.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/correspondents/newsid_2626000/2626349.stm (539 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| BBC journalist marries the girlfriend who saved him from tsunami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Roland Buerk, the son of the BBC journalist Michael Buerk, yesterday married the woman he believes saved him from death in the Asian tsunami a year ago.
		Buerk, who is also a journalist, and his girlfriend Anna Moore deliberately chose to marry on the eve of the anniversary of a disaster that almost claimed both their lives.
		Buerk, who was on leave from his job as the BBC's Bangladesh correspondent, was still in bed in the ground floor room of their beach-front hotel.
	news.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/24/ntsu24.xml (842 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| What I meant to say was... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Michael Buerk, suddenly in the front line of the sex war after taking on the 'femocracy', was brought up by his mother alone.
		Buerk's mother, Betty, discovered that her charming new husband was a bigamist shortly after they married in 1945.
		Buerk had no contact with his father until, at the age of 23, he took the advice of Christine, his new wife, to seek out the man whose absence had defined his childhood.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/08/22/btvbuerk22.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/08/22/ixartright.html (2031 words)

	The Economist Shop : The Road Taken
		Michael Buerk has reported on some of the biggest stories in our lifetime: the Flixborough chemical plant fire, the Birmingham pub bombing, Lockerbie.
		His accounts of his first live radio report as a young reporter competing with the town drunk and his producer's solution to the problem of an uncontrollable panel on the Moral Maze are a joy to read.
		He also reveals the private Michael Buerk, his bigamist father and his long and happy marriage to Christine.
	www.economistshop.com /asp/bookdetail.asp?book=2023 (254 words)

	Shot In The Dark: The Emperor
		Buerk's comments regarding the changes in society due to female influences as the farce it surely is meant to be.
		Michael Buerk has turned his ability to make light of little irritations that occur only to the most irrational of folks into fodder for his make-believe commentary.
		Buerk's favorite things to do is to pretend to complain about some injustice while actually making fun of the "victim." Frankly, I have not met one Brit who can be characterized as stoic or reticent.
	www.shotinthedark.info /archives/006292.html (899 words)

	Michael Buerk Interview
		Although Michael Buerk is well-known as one of the presenters of the BBC Nine O'clock News, his name was first catapulted into national consciousness after his heart-rending reports on the famine in Ethiopia in 1984 spawned Band Aid.
		Buerk recalls another time when he was glad to get onto an aircraft, but on this occasion, he was on holiday in South America with his wife and twin sons who were then aged twelve.
		Buerk marvels at the way some hotels in troubled areas somehow manage to operate normally even though there may be a war going on outside the front door.
	www.warman.demon.co.uk /anna/mb_int.html (2243 words)

	Slugger O'Toole: From Buerk to a Berk?
		BBC newsreader Michael Buerk has obviously got a bit 'hot under the collar' about the prominence of women in the BBC and beyond and bemoans the fact that it is no longer a man's world.
		Former BBC newsreader Michael Buerk has risked provoking the ire of his bosses by claiming that that the "shift in the balance of power between the sexes" has gone too far, and men are now little more than "sperm donors".
		Buerk cited women in the top jobs in BBC broadcasting as an example, saying "these are the people who decide what we see and hear", and said society needs to admit there is a problem.
	www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2005/08/from_buerk_to_a.php (2509 words)

	Telegraph \| News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Buerk, who now presents BBC World and recently attacked some of his fellow news presenters for being overpaid "lame brains", complained that the "shift in the balance of power between the sexes" has gone too far and we needed to "admit the problem".
		Buerk cited females in the top jobs in the BBC as an example, saying "these are the people who decide what we see and hear".
		Buerk said that when he started making the programme he "came across what I considered a very personal example of the changes that have taken place".
	news.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/16/nbuerk16.xml (499 words)

	::: haleisner.com :::
		President of the non-profit Women in Journalism, said, "To be fair to Michael Buerk, he did argue that it is women's thinking, mainly their ability to be in touch with their emotions, that has changed the culture from the old stoic, stiff-upper-lip male view.
		Buerk also referred to several high-ranking BBC positions filled by women as evidence that women were in the drivers' seat there, deciding what people see and hear.
		Buerk is currently an anchor on BBC World, and is known for his reporting from the 1984 famine in Ethiopia.
	www.haleisner.com /pond/pond.htm (783 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Women and work - 'Life is now lived by women's rules,' says Buerk
		MICHAEL Buerk, the BBC newsreader, has complained that the "shift in the balance of power between the sexes" has gone too far, and that "life is now lived in accordance with women's rules".
		Buerk, who complains that men have been reduced to "sperm donors", told the Radio Times magazine that society needs to admit there is a problem.
		Buerk added that, "the majority of middle-management positions were held by women and that has changed the nature of almost every aspect of the marketplace."
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=156&id=1789142005 (652 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| The digested read \| The digested read: The Road Taken by Michael Buerk
		When three-day-old Michael Buerk lay in his mother's arms in the garden suburb of Solihull, little did he know that one day an armaments dump in Addis Ababa would explode in a huge fireball close to where he and his BBC colleagues were filming.
		The first 100 pages of Michael's autobiography would be given over to details of the Buerks' weekly menu, his exploits in the scouts and the school cadet force, and the problems his oversized glasses would cause.
		It was this radio programme that would raise Michael's status as one of the foremost intellectuals of the 20th century.
	books.guardian.co.uk /digestedread/story/0,6550,1346017,00.html (541 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Local London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed broadcaster Michael Buerk is coming to Sevenoaks this month to give his first live performance.
		Buerk will regale the audience with stories of his fascinating career in journalism.
		Buerk and his camera crew were blown up by rebels in Ethiopia in 1992.
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=526932 (419 words)

	Two Encouraging Reports in the British Press
		Michael Buerk has been perhaps the most popular BBC television newsreader (newscaster) for several years.
		So Buerk's work in the television news media, as well as his appearances on several other BBC programmes, have made him popular and well-known to all viewers of British television.
		Buerk is careful to point out that he is not wholly against the emancipation of women but seriously fears its growing affects upon family life.
	www.ukapologetics.net /buerk.html (898 words)

	British Red Cross - Celebrity ambassadors - Michael Buerk
		Michael Buerk has probably won more international awards for television reporting than any other British journalist most notably for his coverage of the Ethiopian famine for BBC News in 1984/5.
		Michael has had first-hand experience of the Red Cross’ valuable work when he worked as a journalist in many of the world’s trouble spots over many years.
		Michael remains a well-respected figure in the Red Cross movement.
	www.redcross.org.uk /standard.asp?id=42240 (497 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		London, Dec. 25: Roland Buerk, son of BBC journalist Michael Buerk, has married the woman he believes saved him from death in the Asian tsunami a year ago.
		Buerk, who was on leave from his job as the BBC’s Bangladesh correspondent, was still in bed in the ground floor room of their beachfront hotel.
		Buerk and Moore, who started going out together 12 years ago when they were both students at Birmingham University, said: “A year ago we had no specific plans to marry although I think we knew we would someday.”
	www.telegraphindia.com /1051226/asp/nation/story_5645502.asp (647 words)

	Psst ... you are never going to believe this - but gossiping is good for you \| The Agonist
		Wherever you stand on "The Michael Buerk Issue", he was right about one thing.
		Michael Buerk, the veteran BBC newsreader, has launched a tirade against what he believes is the all-pervading influence of women in society, claiming that men have been reduced to little more than "sperm donors".
		Buerk, the former presenter of The Nine O'Clock News whose report on Ethiopia inspired Live Aid, said that life was now lived "according to women's rules" and that traditional male traits had been marginalised.
	www.agonist.org /story/2005/8/21/913/47089 (457 words)

	News & Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The real problem with Michael Buerk’s suggestion that society is now dominated by feminine values is the reaction to it.
		Buerk argued that the feminine virtues of being caring, nurturing, co-operative, adaptable and in touch with your emotions are now considered the acceptable side of being human.
		Mr Buerk touches on another no-no by refusing to go along with the notion that it doesn’t matter much whether children have one parent, two mothers, two fathers or a traditional mother and father.
	www.newsandstar.co.uk /opinion/viewarticle.aspx?id=275369 (583 words)

	BBC Berk faces axe (Pub-friendly) [The Rockall Times]
		Breaking cover from his "news retreat" in idyllic Renfrewshire, an angry Buerk told The Rockall Times a "seedy and underhand" campaign was being waged by the BBC that could ultimately lead to him "pulling a knife" on Adrian Chiles, and possibly even administering a "kung-fu death slap" on Dale Winton.
		Buerk continued: "We've already tried to jazz-up the format with an original score by popular beat combo Nine Inch Nails and the occasional wounded crotch shot, but it seems that such measures haven't persuaded those 'upstairs' that the show is essential to BBC schedules."
		"Michael was doomed from the moment he told listeners to his Radio 4 show that 'Osama Bin Laden would taste the fuc*king cold sharp steel of British justice', and that failing that, he would personally 'slice that cocksucker's danglies off' himself."
	www.therockalltimes.co.uk /2002/03/18/michael-buerk.pub.html (459 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| eG weekly \| Attention seeking
		Twenty years ago, on October 23 1984, BBC journalist Michael Buerk made a historic broadcast that brought the suffering of famine-ravaged Ethiopia to our television screens.
		Michael Buerk is an award-winning journalist who has travelled throughout the world.
		Students can find out more about Ethiopia and Michael Buerk's groundbreaking report on learnpremium.co.uk, the Guardian's subscription-based schools resources website.
	education.guardian.co.uk /egweekly/story/0,5500,1335467,00.html (1241 words)

	Mirror.co.uk - News - MEN? WE'RE JUST SPERM DONORS -SAYS TV PRESENTER MICHAEL BUERK
		TV news veteran Michael Buerk says men are just sperm donors while women are becoming more powerful.
		Dad-of-two Michael, 59, said women are calling the shots in all areas of life and predicted the balance should not shift back.
		Michael, who gave up news presenting in 2002, said "almost all the big jobs in broadcasting were held by women" He added: "What we have now are lots of jobs that require people skills and multi-tasking - which women are a lot better at."
	www.mirror.co.uk /news/tm_objectid=15861822&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=men--we-re-just-sperm-donors--says-tv-presenter-michael-buerk--name_page.html (332 words)

	The Gordon Poole Entertainment Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Michael Buerk has probably won more international awards for television reporting than any other British journalist most notably for his coverage of the Ethiopian famine for
		They led directly to a massive international relief effort itself valued in billions of dollars, which was estimated to have saved well over a million lives.
		Michael joined the BBC after an early career in newspapers, including the
	www.gordonpoole.com /speakers/MichaelBuerk.htm (320 words)

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