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

Bill Walker said:
Actually you're right I freelanced a few times and no work no pay.

What about Shearer and Wright though they may be directly employed on salaries (not tax dodging).
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Shearer works for many channels throughout the week when games are on and for 3pm games, Wright is seen on multiple channels and does Beeb and ITV so I guess both are freelancers too
 
Bill Walker said:
Reading this thread it's sad that Britain has become such a divided nation. Brexit, Royalty (Harry Meghan Camilla Andy), BBC, immigration (illegal and legal) and now Gary Lineker.
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I don't think we are as divided on GL as on the other things. Yougov polling is saying that of people who give a toss, 50% think the BBC were wrong and 27% think they were right. That's a fairly substantive majority supporting Lineker. Perhaps unsurprisingly, core Conservative voters skewed in the other direction but they represent a clear minority view on this matter.

As for the other divisions, how long have we got?!
 
aguero93:20 said:
No he's not.
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You're right.

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argyle said:
I mean her books are still sold widely, her films are available to buy and have their own Wizarding World channel on Sky. She is regularly on podcasts, tweets regularly and has her books/screenplays still being made into films and series.

Some people have criticised her for her views on women/trans women but she's not been cancelled.

In fact very, very few people ever have been cancelled. Tabloids shriek about people being cancelled and those on the right get all riled up about it but in reality almost no one has been cancelled.
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Google is your friend.
 
argyle said:
Tabloids shriek about people being cancelled and those on the right get all riled up about it but in reality almost no one has been cancelled.
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Gary Lineker has. Temporarily at least.
 
Lineker clearly had the respect of his peers and the Premier League players. He may have learnt from John Motson about playing up the positives, getting across your love for the game and being fair to all teams. Personally, I could take or leave the punditry and I don’t really watch MOTD these days.
 
It was a waste of time. People who don't watch the punditry and only want the matches should just watch the highlights on YouTube. The only thing different to the sky highlights is that it had no commentary.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Lineker clearly had the respect of his peers and the Premier League players. He may have learnt from John Motson about playing up the positives, getting across your love for the game and being fair to all teams. Personally, I could take or leave the punditry and I don’t really watch MOTD these days.
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There was a time when I was a lad when MOTD was the highlight of the weekend, not any more……never watch now
 
Just seen it. Very funny and feels like they threw their toys out the pram with the presentation of it.

What was the reason for:

- Not playing the theme song?
- Not showing team lineups and formations?
- Not having commentary in the games? (I'm sure they could've used some of the official Premier League commentary used on the international feed if they'd asked nicely)
- Not showing stats such as shots on target, possession, corners etc at the end?
 
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Obviously it’s fine for Sugar but not Lineker . I have no problem whatsoever with either of them expressing personal views .
 
Lineker was bang on with his tweet.

Josiah Wedgwood: “Political democracies that don’t democratise their economic systems are inherently unstable.”
capital is always undermined by its internal contradictions

We have a plutocracy and the proleteriat are voting for the plutocracy under the guise of democracy.

Benjamin Franklin: “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism.”
 
Say what you like about MOTD but I've just seen a few clips of the GB News 'Alternative' one they put out last night. It was as awful and as awkward as you could imagine. Oh and a nice little element of the homophobia that clubs fans have been getting into trouble for when they were talking about Brighton too.
 
Sadly, I got my stopwatch out and worked out that, taking out the 3 replays of the incidents and pointless close-ups of the goal celebration and managers faces we got seventy-six (good year) seconds of Palace v City action. Never mind the analysis and interviews, it's the video replays that eat up the time.

Before you ask, there was seventy-one seconds of actual Everton v Brentford football on show.
 
BigOscar said:
People on the right think it's bias to the left, people on the left think it's bias to the right. It's just a matter of perspective. That being said, they do seem to be out to get Corbyn, but then again so are half the Labour party so it's unclear that's a right wing thing.
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Corbyn is an honest politician and everybody knows you can't form a Government with honest politicians whichever way you lean.
 
unicorn said:
Sadly, I got my stopwatch out and worked out that, taking out the 3 replays of the incidents and pointless close-ups of the goal celebration and managers faces we got seventy-six (good year) seconds of Palace v City action. Never mind the analysis and interviews, it's the video replays that eat up the time.

Before you ask, there was seventy-one seconds of actual Everton v Brentford football on show.
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An exciting Saturday for you
 
Seen quite a few of the older, miserable sort across the internet pretending the show was better last night.

Why the fuck would anyone wait around until 22:30 to watch some brief highlights? They're on YouTube about 15 mins after full time.

In fact, why are you staying up until then to watch MOTD any other week if you find the presenters so insufferable?
 
Getting rid of Lineker, Wright and Shearer (and Richards come to that) is a good days work in my opinion.

It is shocking that all the Journalists are boycotting the programme I'd be telling them if you don't show up for your contractual obligations the contracts will be cancelled and we'll find others!

Lineker whilst being a hypocrite isn't stupid, he knew what he was doing.

WANKER!!
 
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