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

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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It certainly isn't with you.
 
wolviedinho said:
Honestly delighted with the changes. Haven’t watched MOTD in years. Will tune in tonight bar a city defeat.

Far too many people on tv/social media queuing up to tell us how to live and what to think. More content less waffle is welcome.
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There won't be more content - the BBC contract for highlights packages limits the maximum length of any game they show. Tonights show seems to have been pared down to one hour - good news for you is the Zac Effron movie they have scheduled for after MotD will start that bit earlier for you
 
kaz7 said:
He didnt say the word nazi , he said the language of 1930 germany
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You mean the decade in German history defined by the surge in support for the National Socialist Party in 1930, a further descent into dictatorship in the following three years, the National Socialists becoming the largest party in 1933, the National Socialists abolishing the Weimar Republic in 1935, the National Socialists adopting extreme anti-Semitic policies during the mid-1930s, the National Socialists pushing continental Europe to the brink of war by 1938 and then establishing ghettos in several occupied cities at the end of the decade as a prelude to moving the occupants to concentration camps?

Why would anyone ever associate 1930s Germany with the Nazis?

And I’m the ignorant one?
 
Brewster's millions said:
You mean the decade in German history defined by the surge in support for the National Socialist Party in 1930, a further descent into dictatorship in the following three years, the National Socialists becoming the largest party in 1933, the National Socialists abolishing the Weimar Republic in 1935, the National Socialists adopting extreme anti-Semitic policies during the mid-1930s, the National Socialists pushing continental Europe to the brink of war by 1938 and then establishing ghettos in several occupied cities at the end of the decade as a prelude to moving the occupants to concentration camps?

Why would anyone ever associate 1930s Germany with the Nazis?

And I’m the ignorant one?
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You got all that from ‘language of?’
 
Brewster's millions said:
The reference was clearly intended - he chose to make it - and, again, he could have expressed his opposition to the government’s proposals in a thousand different ways. Had he done so no one would really have batted an eyelid.

I’m afraid however that once you start making references to Nazi Germany, then people will naturally and rightly object, and again he should have retracted the comment. It’s not a question of left vs right, it’s about not making stupid and inappropriate comments, particularly if you’re being paid out of the public purse.
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Why naturally and rightly object? I find it ridiculous that the action of pointing out the language they’re using is similar to the language used by others, whoever they are, can be considered more abhorrent than the action itself.
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
news.sky.com

The BBC's guidelines on impartiality explained - and do they apply to Gary Lineker?

One of the BBC's most important pillars is that of impartiality, and this is why former football star Gary Lineker was asked to step back from his sports broadcasting role.
news.sky.com news.sky.com

It doesn't look like contractually he should have tweeted what he did reading the above.
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Then he shouldn’t have tweeted about Corbyn in 2017 and he shouldn’t have got on his soapbox about Qatar during the World Cup. But he did and the BBC said nothing and the government said nothing.

impartiality is not a one way street.
 
Chris in London said:
Then he shouldn’t have tweeted about Corbyn in 2017 and he shouldn’t have got on his soapbox about Qatar during the World Cup. But he did and the BBC said nothing and the government said nothing.

impartiality is not a one way street.
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They said nothing about Qatar because he was being their mouthpiece. YCNMIU
 
But whatever the right and wrongs, look at the fucking state of this country with these idiots in charge, voted in by idiots who believe the fears they're fed.

This govn have split the country in two, pitted all of us against each other. Screwed up the NHS... none of us have money or heating, I can't think of a more destructive govn ever. And their voters.... they lie and distort just as much as this govn.

The country is a fkin mess, and it's all on the tories and their believer's.
 
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