The BBC | Tim Davie resigns as Director General over Trump documentary edit (p 187)

[tolmie's hairdoo]

With respect, I think Lineker was referring to the use of carefully crafted propaganda from 1933 onwards, from their ministry of ‘public enlightenment’; all designed to slowly influence and align German people to the Nazi ideology. Not an easy point to make in a tweet & he shouldn’t have gone near that reference, but he should be able to voice his opinion & castigate the inflammatory language used by politicians.

Obviously a very different end target, but the language used by Braverman and the Tories around migration and asylum is crafted for a reason. And it’s a pretty rancid reason, purely with a culture war and an election in mind. The Tories are very good at managing a message and creating fear, with the vast majority of the print media eager to lap it up and deliver.

We agree in terms of he shouldn't have gone near the reference unless he could qualify them.

And certainly when he has already been warned about him making political statements on a medium such as Twitter.

 

[Mr Edward's shoe mirror]

Fucking hell. It's like Nazi Germany.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Fair play to Ian wright for backing him up

Plenty of other people can fill this void with more aplomb than these two imo. He gets paid way too much anyway. Be good to see others get a chance. Amazed that this is headline news. Jesus wept.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Fucking hell.......its only a temporary thing.

 

[domalino]

Lineker can't say the same. That's the point. He's been warned plenty of times re his Twitter.

A Holocaust survivor has experience and gravitas on the subject.

Lineker has neither.

So no one who wasn’t there is allowed to agree with Joan Salter (the survivor that confronted her in January) that Braverman is using rhetoric comparable to 1930s Germany?

We are reliant on a few surviving 90 year olds to raise the alarm on their own.


Also the fact he’s been warned about making political statements on twitter is entirely the point, when Alan Sugar and Karen Brady are allowed to say whatever they want about the governments opposition without reproach, and Andrew Neil was the face of BBC politics for years without being held to impartiality.

 

[Metal Biker]

Just a bit o' banter!

REV UP THE BUGATTI, WHEY!

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Just waiting for Shearer to make the right call. Whoever agrees to do it is going to face a serious backlash.

Really from who? The BBC have just said he broke impartiality guidelines , t looks very much like he's lost his job because of his own stupidity and arrogance. Tbh I can't stand him on MOTD. So I am a little biased.

 

[Looby blue]

He chose to go down the Nazi/Holocaust route, always a bad move that never ends well and maybe now he'll think before he goes trawling for likes and retweets.

#Stayinyourlane

 

[BayernMan]

Damn you Lineker! It’s his fault the immigration situation is a mess and not the government in power and drafting legislation deemed illegal by several MPs, human rights groups, and the UNHCR!

 

[hcblue95]

He chose to go down the Nazi/Holocaust route, always a bad move that never ends well and maybe now he'll think before he goes trawling for likes and retweets.

#Stayinyourlane

What lane should he stay in?

 

[carlosthejackal]

Fucking spineless cunts

 

[MillionMilesAway]

This amused me:

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Everyone involved in this, from Lineker to the BBC to the government are coming across as a load of utter cunts IMO.

Match of the Day is shit anyway.

They should get Paul Whitehouse to host it as Ron Manager. I might actually start paying the license tax if they did that.

 

[Don Karleone]

Really from who? The BBC have just said he broke impartiality guidelines , t looks very much like he's lost his job because of his own stupidity and arrogance. Tbh I can't stand him on MOTD. So I am a little biased.

If that were true, there should be a lot more BBC presenters getting pulled for "breaking impartiality guidelines". It's a bullshit excuse

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Just a shame they can't sort out some of the shit their sports reporters come out with when reporting lies about City!!!!

Bang on , this bunch of tossers are happy to have that fraud Dan Roan reporting lies and biased views about us.

 

[Blue and true]

This amused me:

Funny because it's quite literally true.

 

[BayernMan]

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Really from who? The BBC have just said he broke impartiality guidelines , t looks very much like he's lost his job because of his own stupidity and arrogance. Tbh I can't stand him on MOTD. So I am a little biased.

The BBC are talking bollocks. Alan Sugar has, over the last few years, told people to vote Tory, posted racist memes and attacked Mick Lynch and the strikers, and last I checked he's still doing The Apprentice.

 

[bluethrunthru]

He will go to SKY or ITV and then be free to comment and tweet what he wants about the BBC.

They seem to be struggling to get anyone to host or be a pundit tomorrow.

I imagine on SKY the likes of Neville will have something to say 1st chance he gets - he gets free political reign off his employers

Stupidity of all this is already reporters are focussing in on people like Sugar who have done the same and even worse for them the man at the top who is on about the importance of impartiality as a lot of commentary is being made about the Tory donations and loans. His position will become untenable

 

[Academica]

Really from who? The BBC have just said he broke impartiality guidelines , t looks very much like he's lost his job because of his own stupidity and arrogance. Tbh I can't stand him on MOTD. So I am a little biased.

Impartiality guidelines, have you ever checked out BBC employed Alan Suger and some of his tweets.