TV & VIDEO - Nov. 3, 1988

British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) television journalists voted on Wednesday to stage a 24-hour strike to protest a Thatcher government ban on interviews with Irish nationalist guerrillas and their supporters. The action, set for Nov. 10, could take breakfast shows and all BBC TV news bulletins off the air. “We’re striking in protest over the imposition of censorship and to preserve accurate reporting,” said spokesman Paul Welsh of the National Union of Journalists. “This is not, as some newspapers are suggesting, a strike in sympathy with terrorists,” he added. Journalists at independent television companies in London and Cardiff had already called a 24-hour strike.