Has the BBC become a Tory tool?

[MillionMilesAway]

In full kit?

I didn't think there was any other version of John Terry.

 

[SWP's back]

No pundits no commentators no interviews after the match with managers or players.

It sounds like you just want to watch YouTube/twitter highlights which is already an option.

See above.

 

[argyle]

Linekers a prick.

We REALLY do have a huge problem with illegal immigration. We cant have boat loads coming over without any sort of limits or checks. We have to do something, we need to find the ones who need our help and restrict the ones that dont.
Lineker saying what he said isnt a help.

The reason why 'boat loads' are coming over is because the Government closed the processing centres in France, Belgium, etc.

There are now no other means for asylum seekers to be processed than to be at the mercy of smuggling gangs.

That information however won't be splashed on tabloid front pages nor be the headlines on facebook posts.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

When did anyone say we should have boat loads of people coming over without any limits or checks?

Can you just point to me where anyone has advocated for that ?

This thread is littered with people missing the whole point of the subject. I think you just can’t win arguing with them

 

[Didsbury Dave]

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.

The outpouring is support is from everyone with any insight and human decency in the UK.

 

[domalino]

This is already much bigger than just Match of the Day but about the impartiality of the propaganda wing of the self-servatives that will bring a whole new level of scrutiny on the upper echelons, political editors and presenters that they REALLY don't want.

Like you say This is obviously not really about Gary Lineker, it’s a row about bbc subservience to the government and it’s been brewing for years, but the revelation about Sharps loan for Johnson and half million donation to the party 3 weeks ago put it in a place where it was just waiting for something to spark the tinder.


Yesterday if Lineker had backed down it would have been pulling the Attenborough documentary because it offended right wing press, or Fiona Bruce celebrating international women’s day by defending Stanley Johnson for only breaking his wife’s nose once that put this row to the forefront.

 

[argyle]

Ian Wright absolutely spot on.

The whole thing is a distraction from their failing policies and to be part of the 'left vs right' culture war.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Govt must be pissing themselves. What should be a protest about their policies has become a protest against the BBC which they'd love to defund. Once again the culture wars aspect successfully distracts the population.

 

[journolud]

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.

You seem to be good at reading the room.

 

[Del_Bosque]

That's the thing this wasn't the bbc being impartial, it was the opposite.

And as I said before, the only people associating a former footballer's personal tweet with the BBC were the Tory party, and then the BBC responding to the Tory party.

Disagree there, it's in the BBC editorial guidelines. Which he's signed up to follow on his multimillion pound deal.

Anyone in a high profile position (highest paid person surely follows that?) should be politically neutral on social media so it doesn't affect the BBC's obligations to be politically neutral under the BBC Charter.

It wasn't even slightly political, he called the Government evil in short, the Nazi's have replaced the devil in secular society as the embodiment of evil.