Talk about misplaced priorities.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64920557
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Talk about misplaced priorities.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64920557
How pathetic of the BBC to kowtow to the right wing nut jobs by forcing Lineker to step down from MOTD until a new social media policy is agreed.
They have also refused to air on national TV the last episode of the new Attenborough series because the don’t want to upset the Tories due to it containing information about the destruction of the environment. They will only show it on iPlayer.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...backlash-fears
Weird how the BBC didn't care when Linekar said 'bin Coybyn'.
Or how about the time they photoshopped Corbyn in a Russian hat (despite the person he was running against actually taking donations from Russia).
Or how about Laura Kuenssberg's blatant bias towards our current government.
According to the Telegraph.
The BBC feel that he has breached their guidelines.
Whether this is a football or political thread is a moot point.
I 've put it on the main message board.
Mike can decide if he wants to move it.
I think its fair enough Elwood as its Match of the Day but I can guess where this will go.🤣
Is the BBC Chairman still making donations to the Conservative Party?
He shouldn't have said it and he shouldn't have been sacked. The BBC is in a difficult position in terms of impartiality I suppose.
So which Tory lackey will be presenting MOTD?
wont be long before someone else snaps him up, wrighty has said he will boycott match of the day in support of gary, and gary has not stepped back hes been taken off air after refusing to say sorry for his comments...
good on him no point saying shit of your only going to then grovel and back track on it... folks cant say shit no more
Well impartiality is built into the BBC. Look what happens when they briefly did a Corbyn montage several years ago on Newsnight - people lost their shit and still mention it years later. Well, that's why the BBC needs to be impartial.
Now, I don't think he should have been sacked, but that's clearly how the BBC have interpreted it.
Hopefully the perpetually offended will spend less time calling for everyone to be sacked all the time in future..now that would be good
And even when they do say something, it’s deliberately misinterpreted. What he said was spot on. Tories don’t like their actual beliefs being questioned and called out.
Penny Mordaunt is the natural candidate to present Match of the Day surely?
What Lineker said was foolish but he shouldn't be sacked. BBC has rules on it impartiality though and he's been warned and carried on. If your boss warns you on your behaviour and you carry on, there are often consequences, rightly or wrongly.
As for that guardian article, it could be complete and utter BS.
"The BBC strongly denied this was the case and insisted the episode in question was never intended for broadcast."
Aren't you just potentially spreading misinformation?
This wasn't Newsnight though and Gary Lineker is not a news journalist. He's just a freelance sports presenter so should have been allowed the same freedoms as you or I in choosing to express his opinions.
All the BBC needed to do was declare that it didn't necessarily endorse Lineker's views. The corporation will lose masses of respect both over this and the David Attenborough issue.
Tell em to piss off Gary , speak your mind
Ian Wright has stepped away from Saturday nights show in support of Lineker
Maybe they could present The Football League Show ?
he has his walker crisps millions to fall back on.
The BBC I think does a pretty good job on the whole of being middle ground and impartial
I thought corbyn was an idiot but he got a battering
It's good that Lineker has spoken out and good that the Tories are on the back foot again
I am sure he won't mind being sacrificed at the altar and he can afford it
It's a uk registered partnership he set up with his ex wife.
HMRC tried a similar claim against Lorraine Kelly. ITV contracted her company to present the Lorraine programme. Her argument was that when presenting the programme she wasn't Lorraine Kelly the person, but Lorraine Kelly the TV character. Despite LK the character being the Director of LK the company, presenting a programme called Lorraine, she won.
Perhaps they'll find out that people just want to watch the highlights and not the tedious drivel in between.