Has the BBC become a Tory tool?

[I'm With Stupid]

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An interesting one in the replies.

Ignoring the clear takeover of the top of BBC by Tory shills, how can anyone who oversaw the shambles that is GB News get a job as the Director of News for the BBC? It'd be like someone going to a Michelin starred restaurant with Burger King on their CV and being given the head chef job.

 

[give it to gordon]

will local coverage still be on maybe?

bbc manchester and such?

Yea bbc kent are still covering the rags and dippers games

 

[bluethrunthru]

no 5 live football coverage at all today by the look of it.

Normally Saturdays for me can be Football Focus and 5 Live flitting between the two. I won't go down the Talkshite route so for the first time ever I will have SSN on telly all afternoon - thats what the BBC have done to themselves - driven away people who follow sports on their coverage platforms and for what?

 

[bluethrunthru]

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[willipp]

Once again though, it's the more vulnerable people in society that the Government/BBC has affected with this awful decision.

No football coverage on the TV or radio all weekend on the BBC because of this.

That means older people who can't use the internet, people who can't afford Sky/BT, people who have to use radio to take in a live game etc...all lose access to the most popular sport in the country on the public funded service.

Now I know there are plenty who can skirt around this but there are many who can't, plenty like to slag the coverage off but it's still massively important to so many.

The boss at the BBC feels it is acceptable to remove Lineker because of his opinions whilst publicly supporting the Tories and Boris Johnson, make it make sense.

Bit of a stretch really that one. There is a tonne of bbc local radio sport coverage and then god forbid, maybe talksport. BBC is not the be all and end all it once was and really this shouldn’t impact anyone’s ability to listen to scores or coverage.

 

[give it to gordon]

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Haha and this is the bloke who very nearly ( lost by about 100 votes ) became my local MP. Only beaten by a Tory who quit UKIP !. Both fucking twats

 

[bluethrunthru]

BBC enforcing its impartiality rules......not

 

[urban genie]

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The word **** is too good for this waste of atoms

 

[foggy1974]

Whenever I get a US stream I'm usually impressed with Robbie Earle, is engaging and provides actual insight. Nedum speaks brilliantly too.

Our main representative in the media is Micah, he is a blue .. ... But he's lightweight, comic relief and as a result there's no weight given to his views. It doesn't help that like Joleon, he doesn't challenge the red shirt narrative. Micah could do worse than take a leaf out of Ian Wright's book who has matured into a mostly reasonable guy.

Her voice might be blast from the Sweeney, but Emma Hayes is a good tactical analyst.

In the UK after years of dumbing down with almost exclusively red shirts, we are where we are. At least tonight there'll be no Stephen Warnock in Primark glasses there to make sure Smith look balanced!

Watching the US stream, I don't mind Le Saux & Dixon. They don't seem to have a script to follow.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Depends on whether they use the additional time to show more highlights.

Drives me made when they show the highlights and they somehow make a game of of 22 shots Vs 3 look equal, only to then explain to us all afterwards some insight supported by the clips they didn't show.

Bit like a crime drama revealing at the end that it was a totally different suspect, who they only introduced for the final ten minutes of the series, leaving loads of unanswered loose ends.

Are the commentators stepping out, too? Will they play some nice mellow jazz over the top to compensate?

All BBC commentators have stood down.
Talk of using premier league commentators from the world feed apparently.