Has the BBC become a Tory tool?

[hcblue95]

The BBC have suspended Lineker "For breaking their guidelines on impartiality". The point is, not what he tweeted per se, but whether, under his contract, he is allowed to comment on political matters.
It is a matter of fact if he signed up to any restrictive covenant or not.

We don't know his contract so we don't know if he broke any rules though do we?

 

[SWP's back]

I agree with Lineker’s comments

Having said that, on reading the CoC he’s signed up to then I have little sympathy with his plight.

If he wants to stand up for what he’s saying and he wishes to say his comments without repercussion, then he’d be best resigning from the BBC contract he’s signed. I’m sure he could find work for a million broadcasters that aren’t taxpayer funded and allow greater freedom for personal political commentary.

 

[hcblue95]

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.

Haha open your eyes. It is clear he has overwhelming support from the majority of people. You really are in denial if you can't see that. Even most right wingers are for free speech and think he's done nothing wrong.

 

[Jack Hackett]

Lineker signed a 5 year deal with the BBC under which he was bound to maintain political impartiality and having snubbed his nose at that on a number of occasions, the arrogant twat’s latest indiscretion finally was the straw that broke the camels back. Good. I’m fed up with the smug tosser. And btw, it’s totally irrelevant whether you agree with his views or not. As for those boycotting the BBC now ‘in solidarity’, I’d fire the lot of them…bandwagon virtue signalling prats.

 

[Summerbuzz]

pulling the Attenborough documentary because it offended

That's the worse one, and it clearly suggests that Tory influence has gone too far, that a group of voters is being taken special care of.

I mean, the Modi documentary was treated as highly offensive by many millions of Indians. This is pretty much a normal risk for many documentaries.

Somehow, that's well and understood. But if it offends "Daily Mail-core" viewers, it gets pulled.

Impartial?

To think that they would act this way to their greatest individual servant and broadcaster.

 

[TinFoilHat]

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.

Who knew Nigel Farage was a blue?

 

[journolud]

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.

Nor a hindrance. He doesn’t dictate policy.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

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.

Twice as many people came during the Iraq war, and 90% were processed within 6 months. Now it's 4%. There only one group of people to blame for that, and it's not the 'wave' of asylum seekers, but the utter incompetence of the Tories in running anything resembling a public service. Name a single public service that has improved after 13 years of Tory rule. And yet countless morons still trust them to deal with issues like immigration. It's a manufactured controversy, because the only way this failing government stands a chance of getting re-elected is by whipping up hatred.

 

[SWP's back]

We don't know his contract so we don't know if he broke any rules though do we?

Well I’ve managed to read them.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

The guidelines on impartiality don’t seem to be something written down and signed up to. And as we can see with this response to a complaint about Andrew Neill, BBC policy doesn’t apply to freelancers speaking on social media…

And there it is, in a nutshell. A man who presented the Politics Show on the BBC, a show about politics, not having to be even vaguely impartial on SM.
We appear to have suddenly lost a national broadcaster and now have a state broadcaster, which is far from ideal, especially in these perilous times.