Over the next three years 650 jobs will be lost from a workforce of 2,400 , that is 25 percent of the total. They want to save 46m a year. The English for the Caribbean , Portuguese for Africas, Macedonian and Albian services will be axed. There will be more focus on online, mobile and TV content distributions in these languages. Foreign Secretary William Hague, made in a written statement clear to the MPs that the in cuts in funding required ‘difficult decisions to be made’. He also said that the World Service had a ‘viable and promising future’, but was ‘not immune from public spending constraints’. He also said that ‘it is absolutely right for the World Service to move more services to online and mobile. That is the way the world is going.
My reaction: It is not only difficult for the employees that they lose their jobs but also for the listeners of countries where they
not have access to the internet. I think is it not necessary that they stop broadcasting in lands like Africa and other countries because they not have internet and would not have access to the programmes. They must focus their efforts in the languages where there is the greatest need and were they have the strongest impact. It is also awful for British foreign policy because there are weakening substantially one of the most important elements of international television.
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