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# How Boris Johnson gets his news
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2010/11/how_boris_johnson_gets_his_news/
- Published: 2010-11-08T14:27:51.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-28T12:56:56.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: BBC, boris johnson, Google, google news, NUJ

From [his column in The Telegraph](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/8116584/So-journalists-at-the-BBC-went-on-strike-Thats-news-to-me.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)\*\*, in which he explains why he barely noticed the BBC journalists’ strike:

> I consume vast quantities of news – but almost entirely without the assistance of the BBC. I get up early and read a fair quantity of newsprint, notably this paper and the *FT*. But if I then switch on my computer and go to Google news, I can see what everyone is reading across the planet. I can watch stories break in real time.

Never had him down as a [Google News](http://news.google.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "Google News") man…

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