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Lineker To Step Back From Presenting Match Of The Day
...until an agreement is reached on his social media use, the BBC has said.
Bet he is feeling less cocky now. No doubt he still gets paid. Time will tell if his principles or ego win the day.
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Bet he is feeling less cocky now. No doubt he still gets paid. Time will tell if his principles or ego win the day.
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The Tory party succeed in getting Lineker banned because he wrote something they didn’t like.
That has caused a crisis at the BBC, programmes being affected, calls for the DG to resign, other presenters supporting GL and concerns about the Conservative Party indulging in political interference.
Another own goal by Tory HQ.
That has caused a crisis at the BBC, programmes being affected, calls for the DG to resign, other presenters supporting GL and concerns about the Conservative Party indulging in political interference.
Another own goal by Tory HQ.
Well, according to the Daily Express MOTD had its biggest audience since November without the pundits, so that gives the BBC two options:
1. Carry on without pundits or
2. drop football altogether (there's plenty on other channels to keep footie addicts happy) and spend the money on minority sports instead; rugby, swimming, athletics, badminton, table tennis etc.
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1. Carry on without pundits or
2. drop football altogether (there's plenty on other channels to keep footie addicts happy) and spend the money on minority sports instead; rugby, swimming, athletics, badminton, table tennis etc.
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The problem here is impartiality, but not Lineker’s, the BBC’s.
So long as the Government select the BBC’s management, then they will always be beholden to them. Blair and Thatcher did it, and now we have a Johnson appointed BBC.
In this age of streaming broadcast media and £Billion budgets, the BBC should be run by professionals with a proven record in broadcasting, not some amateurs who did the Prime Minister a favour or two.
So long as the Government select the BBC’s management, then they will always be beholden to them. Blair and Thatcher did it, and now we have a Johnson appointed BBC.
In this age of streaming broadcast media and £Billion budgets, the BBC should be run by professionals with a proven record in broadcasting, not some amateurs who did the Prime Minister a favour or two.
"he should follow his own advice and get off the anti government bandwagon. "
Problem is, in the "impartiality" argument, for every bandwagon there is another going in the opposite direction. But the pro-government one seems not to be an issue ...
As for Edwin Poots, I'm told he doesn't need a satellite dish for Sky ;-)
Problem is, in the "impartiality" argument, for every bandwagon there is another going in the opposite direction. But the pro-government one seems not to be an issue ...
As for Edwin Poots, I'm told he doesn't need a satellite dish for Sky ;-)
As I said before, Tim Davie seems a decent chap to me, but he does seem not really to know how to handle this.
He'd have been better focussing on one tweet in particular, relating to 1930s Germany, where he would have had a point, and tried to get some sort of clarification all-round.
Taking the stand he has on "impartiality" and "guidelines", and then, apparently out of the blue suspending Lineker, gives the impression, real or otherwise, that the BBC is being got at.
He'd have been better focussing on one tweet in particular, relating to 1930s Germany, where he would have had a point, and tried to get some sort of clarification all-round.
Taking the stand he has on "impartiality" and "guidelines", and then, apparently out of the blue suspending Lineker, gives the impression, real or otherwise, that the BBC is being got at.
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