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

Bill Walker said:
Doesn't matter what I'm happy with. GL signed a contract. He's breached it.

If he quits the BBC he can say whatever he likes. It's quite simple really.
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Meanwhile the BBC has just about cancelled its own flagship footie programme. SKY and BT Sports will be pissing themselves laughing and when final score is replaced by Murder She Wrote the gammon can truly claim a victory - Siri which is the self destruct button>


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Bill Walker said:
I believe he signed a contract with the BBC as a contractor, the contract had an impartiality clause which he has breached, several times.
I think other senior presenters have voiced their opinion as to why he can do that and presumably they can't.
So unless the BBC acted they could all start with their own particular soapboxes.

Gary Lineker is paid by and is the face of BBC sport. He can't suddenly start condemning the Government when the BBC's doctrine is impartiality. Having a senior figure attacking the Gov is not a viable situation.
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He's not in news or current affairs, so no such clause exists. The BBC being impartial doesn't mean people can't have opinions, it means they are meant to cover both sides of the story.

He didn't even voice his opinion on the BBC's platform anyway, so it's got nothing to do with them. The whole thing is a bizarre overreaction.
 
You must remain apolitical* if you work at the BBC.

*Unless you support the Tory government, then you can chat as much shit as you want.


Lineker has done nothing wrong, there are far worse working at the BBC who have aired much worse opinions and haven't been treated the same way.


Showing compassion for the vulnerable in our society gets you kicked off of the BBC, showing hatred towards them gets you a place in the government cabinet.
 
Bill Walker said:
I believe he signed a contract with the BBC as a contractor, the contract had an impartiality clause which he has breached, several times.
I think other senior presenters have voiced their opinion as to why he can do that and presumably they can't.
So unless the BBC acted they could all start with their own particular soapboxes.

Gary Lineker is paid by and is the face of BBC sport. He can't suddenly start condemning the Government when the BBC's doctrine is impartiality. Having a senior figure attacking the Gov is not a viable situation.
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Thank you for the reply.
Explain to a passed simpleton
 
Bill Walker said:
I believe he signed a contract with the BBC as a contractor, the contract had an impartiality clause which he has breached, several times.
I think other senior presenters have voiced their opinion as to why he can do that and presumably they can't.
So unless the BBC acted they could all start with their own particular soapboxes.

Gary Lineker is paid by and is the face of BBC sport. He can't suddenly start condemning the Government when the BBC's doctrine is impartiality. Having a senior figure attacking the Gov is not a viable situation.
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Impartiality though surely doesn’t mean ‘cannot attack the government’?
Lord Sugar is paid by the BBC and is the face of The Apprentice and yet he said this, in an election year, as well….


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Dubai Blue said:
He's not in news or current affairs, so no such clause exists. The BBC being impartial doesn't mean people can't have opinions, it means they are meant to cover both sides of the story.

He didn't even voice his opinion on the BBC's platform anyway, so it's got nothing to do with them. The whole thing is a bizarre overreaction.
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Does the BBC been impartial cover football as well ?
 
Dubai Blue said:
He's not in news or current affairs, so no such clause exists. The BBC being impartial doesn't mean people can't have opinions, it means they are meant to cover both sides of the story.

He didn't even voice his opinion on the BBC's platform anyway, so it's got nothing to do with them. The whole thing is a bizarre overreaction.
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Yep, how do they square this with employing Jeremy Clarkson for years who would write a column of his hilariously outrageous views in The Sun every week, and would regularly say something controversial specifically to promote a BBC programme? They actually banned news and current affairs presenters from writing newspaper columns back in 2003, but that's never been a rule for other presenters. I don't see how tweeting is any different from having a paid opinion column.

As I've said all along, they love to point the finger at some lefty comedian or sports presenter, while the entire news output is taken over by Tories.
 
Metal Biker said:
Does that mean admitting cancelling the other people now wasn't okay? Is cancelling anyone for any views whatsoever, supportive or not, now not okay?

Where are we on the spectrum of morality, it appears to keep changing.
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No, what I’m saying is that there’s an awful lot of people complaining about cancel culture who’ve now decided they want Lineker cancelled.
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
Impartiality though surely doesn’t mean ‘cannot attack the government’?
Lord Sugar is paid by the BBC and is the face of The Apprentice and yet he said this, in an election year, as well….


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In a nut shell.
OK for him to have a view but not linekar.
Strange country this is .

I feel.if ur like me.
Straight.
White.
Fat.
Bald.

No religion.
No political bias your on your own .
I don't know I feel what ever you say these day someone takes the hump with it.


Only people I don't like are rags that it.

I don't care if you from Pakistan.
Your guy.
With ginger hair you used to be a bloke now ur a dog and your a jew.
As long as your not a funking red.
Ctid night blues
 
BobKowalski said:
Exactly. The BBC could have had its cake and eaten it.

I struggle to understand how and when people running things became so fucking stupid.
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I would say it happened in the run up to the 2010 General Election and has continued ever since....
 
mr t said:
Never trust a Tory - end of.
Gary Lineker is entitled to say or tweet anything he wants to.
This is called free speech.
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I'm.not a big political person.
Mainly cos they are are lying bustards.
But my grandad and grandma.
Came from.barnskey all there family members worked in the coal mines.
I thi know you know the rest.



Me grandad actually played for Barnsley.
He went nuts when me old man took me to city
 
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