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

Blue and true said:
How many have you ever taken in?
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I could ask you the same but you may have done, so I respect you for it if you have. Unfortunately in my humble dwelling there is insufficient room and I wouldn’t volunteer if there was. We live in a free country and are all entitled to an opinion whether people agree with it or not. I have no problem with Lineker having an opinion but am delighted that the excessive number of pundits are having time off.
 
Del_Bosque said:
Disagree there, it's in the BBC editorial guidelines. Which he's signed up to follow on his multimillion pound deal.

Anyone in a high profile position (highest paid person surely follows that?) should be politically neutral on social media so it doesn't affect the BBC's obligations to be politically neutral under the BBC Charter.

It wasn't even slightly political, he called the Government evil in short, the Nazi's have replaced the devil in secular society as the embodiment of evil.
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Andrew Neil says hi…!
 
denislawsbackheel said:
162,000 signatures so far disagree with your lazy inaccurate analysis. In fact what you write is so wrong I doubt you actually have read what Lineker posted.


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Reinstate Gary Lineker to Match of the Day

Outside the headquarters of the BBC in London is a statue of the writer George Orwell. It bears the words: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.” In a series of tweets Gary Lineker did just that. He told the Government that its...
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Online petition's are virtually worthless.
How did you expect this one would go "Should Manchester City be banned from the Premier League"
Reckon it might get a few votes....
 
Jack Hackett said:
Lineker signed a 5 year deal with the BBC under which he was bound to maintain political impartiality and having snubbed his nose at that on a number of occasions, the arrogant twat’s latest indiscretion finally was the straw that broke the camels back. Good. I’m fed up with the smug tosser. And btw, it’s totally irrelevant whether you agree with his views or not. As for those boycotting the BBC now ‘in solidarity’, I’d fire the lot of them…bandwagon virtue signalling prats.
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What a ****!
 
Brewster's millions said:
Really.

Where exactly is the groundswell of support for Lineker, outside of the clique of overpaid BBC Sport presenters who play the game and seem to spend all of their time laughing at each others’ jokes, and of course left wing Twitter types who latch onto anything or anybody who criticises the Conservative Party? There isn’t any.

All that happened is that Lineker made a stupid, lazy and ridiculous comment comparing government policy to Nazi Germany. I suggest, frankly, that he has a few history lessons and he simply shouldn’t have made the comment. He then refuses to retract the comment - specifically the reference to the Nazis - even though there are a thousand ways he could have retracted it while still making clear his opposition to what the government is doing.

His BBC chums then back him because they’ve forgotten that they are paid to do a public service and, frankly, because they don’t want anybody upsetting their little club, which pays them all very nicely thank you very much.

Meanwhile, people who rely on the BBC doing what they should be doing - i.e. providing a public service - miss out because Gary Lineker wants to throw around references to Nazi Germany. The whole episode is ridiculous and just shows how far removed the BBC has become from what it’s actually supposed to be doing.
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He didn't compare the Conservative's to the Nazi's.

He said the language surrounding their new policy is not dissimilar to the language in Germany in the 1930's. That of immigrants 'swarming and invading.'

That you've seen this as a left wing vs right wing thing is exactly what the Government wants with their culture wars.
 
domalino said:
Also Per this thread by someone who worked in the BBCs editorial complaints department for 20 years, a sports presenter talking about politics on social media is literally the example they use of something that doesn’t breach guidelines.

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Sugar has already been mentioned as well but his sidekick, Lady Brady, seems to be another example of where impartially doesn’t matter either.
She actually sits in the HOL as a Tory peer which, you could argue, is a little bit less impartial than a tweet by an ex footballer.……
Not only that, I’d defy anyone to read some of her columns in The Sun, which she’s directly links on her twitter feed, and tell me she’s not breaching those guidelines.
 
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