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

BlueHammer85 said:
Ken Bruce decision to move to another Station , BBC served him well for years and years.

Linekar, Shearer , Wright etc are all legends of the game and excellent characters to analyse the game. Sure there’s a few some like, some don’t , same for any sports analysis.

BBC has such a wide variety of channels, radio stations, online services that it’s pretty strange there’s nothing for you to like.
Personally love 5live, Radio 2, BBC live sport and so many dramas they’ve produced in recent years.
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I think Ken decided to go when he had a look at the writing on the BBC shithouse wall, and saw that if he didn't look elsewhere he was not gonna be at the BBC.

The wide variety of BBC channels are invariably feeding us stuff on a repeat loop that I wouldn't have watched in the first place. And I believe there isn't a station that doesn't go through the BBC mandatory box-ticking to make sure every element whose exclusion would result in one complaint after another is avoided.

The BBC are frightened to death of losing the licence money 'cos if it went subscription people would vote with their feet.

And didn't MotD last night bring in another half million viewers?
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
Why not go and live there yourself and report back to us on what it's like?
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I wouldnt have any real objection to living there to be honest. I mean im pretty sure it would be nicer than Sri Lanka.... Im sure it will be nicer than living in the Al Nafud Desert in Saudi Arabia and I lived there for 3 years.
 
Jam Tomorrow said:
Funnily enough I hadnt watched MOTD for years in fact decades, basically due to its anti City pro cartel stance, so, putting aside my view on Lineker, i just watched the twenty minutes highlights roll and was neither impressed nor disappointed, it was fuck all, but it did highlight the fact MOTD has morphed into an “entertainment“ offering. I think the BBC are only allowed to show twenty minutes of highlights, hence the rest is padding. This padding is what made me stop watching it, so if it disappeared I wouldn’t be arsed.
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The actual football shown is normally much more than 20 minutes, I think they were just being churlish.

These are dangerous times for those who love MOTD. Much as I’m annoyed by Lineker’s woke middle class virtue signalling at every opportunity, I like the vibe he brings to the program, he’s a very good presenter and asks the right questions. I have no doubt if he goes the BBC will lurch into full box ticking mode and we’ll get Alex Scott as the new presenter.
 
Axel Freed said:
The actual football shown is normally much more than 20 minutes, I think they were just being churlish.

These are dangerous times for those who love MOTD. Much as I’m annoyed by Lineker’s woke middle class virtue signalling at every opportunity, I like the vibe he brings to the program, he’s a very good presenter and asks the right questions. I have no doubt if he goes the BBC will lurch into full box ticking mode and we’ll get Alex Scott as the new presenter.
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Under the contract with between the BBC & the PL, the BBC is only allowed to show a maximum of 12 minutes highlights from each game
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
I think Ken decided to go when he had a look at the writing on the BBC shithouse wall, and saw that if he didn't look elsewhere he was not gonna be at the BBC.

The wide variety of BBC channels are invariably feeding us stuff on a repeat loop that I wouldn't have watched in the first place. And I believe there isn't a station that doesn't go through the BBC mandatory box-ticking to make sure every element whose exclusion would result in one complaint after another is avoided.

The BBC are frightened to death of losing the licence money 'cos if it went subscription people would vote with their feet.

And didn't MotD last night bring in another half million viewers?
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Box ticking is a nice phrase for right wing bingo but hasn't he been replaced by Vernon kay?
 
Chris B said:
So he simply meant an out of date version of German then? Come on, it is clear he was talking about the Nazi regime and all that entails.
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He was referencing the language which was used in Germany that allowed the rise of the Nazi's.
 
The Lineker ‘scandal’ is only a ‘scandal’ because it serves a motley crew of bastards, hypocrites, controversialists, columnists, and proprietors to make it one. You can spend hours debating with these people but they will never engage honestly.



On the money as ever
 
bowp said:
How is taking a hard line on boat crossings making the UK and unwelcoming place? This a country that had 1.1m immigrants in year ending June 2022. Just to put it into perspective France (similar population) welcomed only 320k.

The UK has a problem with illegal immigration and in 2017 (as per PEW research) had roughly a quarter of the total illegal immigrants in the whole of the EU. The government is trying to deal with it but whatever they do they will get abuse.
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You are conflating legal and ‘illegal’ immigrants. In 2022, legal immigrants came from Ukraine, Afghanistan plus a great deal more foreign students following the lifting of lockdown. ‘Illegal’ immigrants are illegal because there currently is no legal path for
them to travel from countries where they are in danger to claim asylum in this country. There is no Ukraine type scheme for Syrians for example, that is why they try to reach these shores in small boats. Basically the government are saying to these people on no account come here. If you do you will be banned for life. That’s very welcoming and compassionate don’t you think? Over 70% of those arriving just now that claim asylum are granted it. So it’s not like they are opportunist chancers.
 
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bowp said:
How is the

How is taking a hard line on boat crossings making the UK and unwelcoming place? This a country that had 1.1m immigrants in year ending June 2022. Just to put it into perspective France (similar population) welcomed only 320k.

The UK has a problem with illegal immigration and in 2017 (as per PEW research) had roughly a quarter of the total illegal immigrants in the whole of the EU. The government is trying to deal with it but whatever they do they will get abuse.

Its like the farce of the likes of David Lammy complaining about the deportation flights to Jamaica. So we reach a crazy situation that the Home Secretary would risk being criticized for breaking the law if he/she didnt deport the criminals as they are required to do under the UK Borders Act. But instead gets criticised for following the law by the likes of Lammy who was a member of the Labour Government who brought in the law and actually voted for it to be enacted! I mean damned if you do damned if you dont.

Then we have Lineker who has a contract with a body that requires its staff to be impartial outrageously making comparisons to a regime that murdered circa 6 million people with sending people to Rwanda, and people have the audacity to suggest the BBC is a tool of the Tory's.....this incidentally an organization which traditionally advertised its vacancies in that bastion of the right the Guardian newspaper.
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  • The studies you cite show 39% of the non-EU nationals were here temporarily on a study-Visa, a further 21% were work visas.
  • 22% of EU nationals were here studying, 38% of EU nationals were here temporarily for work.
  • The 1.1m number also include British Nationals returning to the UK and the largest group being British Nationals in Hong Kong.
  • In terms of criticism of flights to Jamaica, it was people who had lived here for decades and which also included people put on a deportation list with minor crimes.
  • The article from Pew says this," Overall, unauthorized immigrants accounted for less than 1% of Europe’s (including the UK's) total population. Yet the Far-Right lose their minds over it.
In terms of people crossing by boats this is a problem almost entirely made by this current Government who closed the processing centres in France etc.
 
Match of the Day is a popular programme. Always over 2 million viewers. Which considering everyone could have easily watched all their content hours earlier if they wished, is a lot of people.

A lot of it is probably nostalgia and habit but it’s still a programme that a lot of people look forward to and I hope they get it back to normal ASAP.

Notable that they didn’t actually call that highlights package MotD last night. Should probably be pointed out that it’s viewing figures were up on the normal. I’m sure people will use that as evidence that nobody is tuning in for the chatter. But I’m sure those figures would never hold up if it became a regular format. It was curiosity and novelty value.
 
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