Has the BBC become a Tory tool?

arcademik70 said:
Like Neville and others, Lineker uses his media profile to air political views. I've no problem with that. He works for a national broadcaster though and so there is a difference. Jump to itv or go back to BT and no problem for me. But you don't get two be in BBC as it is and use it to sell your own message.

Personally I wouldn't employ anyone who refused to work on the football today if they were contracted to. Give opportunity to others and let them find their feet. Let the football be the product, not the personality. Not that there's a single person I'd miss from the list of people who have withdrawn.

Potential to be the least biased and most informative motd in years if they manage it right.
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It's been said a million times. It would be all well and good if the BBC actually had a policy like that but they don't!

They ask political and news editors and presenters to remain 'impartial' (quotation marks because even that is questionable) and that is it.

The issue with this is, he isn't towing the government line. All he did was question the language used by the government and compared it to a previous regime that used similar language and they took him off air. That is ridiculous.


Striking due to mistreatment in the workplace is completely reasonable and if you never hired somebody because they stand up for others then you'd lose a lot of good workers.
 
bluethrunthru said:
but as another poster said you can't equate that rule to Sugars tweets
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You mean The Right Honourable The Lord Sugar, Baron Sugar of Clapton. Knighted by New Labour in 2000, elevated to the House of Lords by Gordon Brown in 2009 and the present government's Enterprise Czar.

Net worth £1.21bn
 
simon23 said:
Im saying the thread shouldnt have been started....
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I'll start what thread I want thanks, if you don't like it (the majority seem to have taken it for how it was intended) then feel free to sod off somewhere else, meanwhile you can always get back to moaning about City, there'll be a match thread along later.
 
arcademik70 said:
Like Neville and others, Lineker uses his media profile to air political views. I've no problem with that. He works for a national broadcaster though and so there is a difference. Jump to itv or go back to BT and no problem for me. But you don't get two be in BBC as it is and use it to sell your own message.

Personally I wouldn't employ anyone who refused to work on the football today if they were contracted to. Give opportunity to others and let them find their feet. Let the football be the product, not the personality. Not that there's a single person I'd miss from the list of people who have withdrawn.

Potential to be the least biased and most informative motd in years if they manage it right.
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I'd only agree with that if the BBC itself was unbiased - years covering Johnsons arse and not daring to mention Brexit amongst other things has tainted the corporation.

No 5Live Sports this afternoon now - reality 100 - BBC 0 - scorers - BBC og x 100
 
MCFC1993 said:
5 live affected as well.
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Keown will step up, when folk mention small boats he thinks of this....

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Lineker will walk into another job on the BT or Sky channels, so will his ponies that have backed him,
MOTD been dead for years and who would miss it anyway, you get all the highlights a couple of mins after the games have finished on the Internet,

Football and politics don't mix and once you cross each other's boundaries you get into this sort of trouble,
 
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