Has the BBC become a Tory tool?

[TinFoilHat]

How are the BBC reporting it. By doing a newscast with right wing journalists!

 

[sir baconface]

Politics aside, Lineker’s a smug, very privileged individual whose personal standards may or may not stand up to scrutiny.

A martyr he fkn well isn’t.

Whatever his origins, and despite once being of an ethnic minority (haha, remember that one?), he’s lived more than half of his life as a millionaire.

As with the news shows and many other programmes, it would do no harm to sweep out the mediocre, over-upholstered establishment favourites and nourish new talent.

In the case of MOTD, that would mean skipping a generation or two to leave the present second tier idiots conditions, give him another crack. If not, be bold and look elsewhere.

The PL is a highly saleable commodity whoever fronts the offering.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Weird over-reaction from the BBC. So what if Lineker has a different opinion to the government? In a free society he’s a right to express it, and it’s highly unlikely he’d have brought it up in MoTD, so not sure why the BBC felt he needed to step down.

All they’ve done is back themselves into a corner and make people think the BBC is a government mouthpiece rather than an entertainment company.

do you really think that? With a DG who has donated @£500k to the Tories and arranged a loan facility of £800k for Johnson whilst simultaneously having a guy in charge of news and current affairs who was former press sec for a Tory PM and is now on the board - do you really think it could be a govt mouthpiece Lol

 

[lazerblue]

Will there be a minute silence before every game

 

[hilts]

That’s actually a version of MOTD that I think I’d prefer tbh.

Regardless though, this is an absolute clusterfuck by the BBC/government. They’ve backed themselves into a corner here.

Life is cruel just when you get a programme you don't have to fast forward through you boycott it.

 

[TinFoilHat]

I think it could revamp the format and the Beeb would be chuffed saving money on presentation fees.

 

[Gray]

So tomorrow night, no presenters, and no pundits, just more football.

Seems like win win to me, I rarely watch the biased shit these days, but I might watch tomorrow (though our result will be the biggest influence).

As the thread title says "ignoring the lineker stuff", so please take any political bollocks to a different thread.

That is the way to go, just show the football and let us make our own minds up. A lot cheaper for the BBC as well, should have been done years ago.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

The only problem it would be the same editors that would be putting the highlight packages together. And BBC Sports web page would be still spouting their biased articles/match commentary

I know one of them and they get told by the pundits which bits to include. These guys (freelancers) are otherwise used to providing highlights packages in real time - athletics, Wimbledon etc. I expect they'll be genuinely whizzing through the footage for interesting bits rather than pushing any agenda so may be better.

 

[WNRH]

Politics aside, Lineker’s a smug, very privileged individual whose own personal standards may or may not stand up to scrutiny.

A martyr he fkn well isn’t.

Whatever his origins, and despite once being of an ethnic minority (haha, remember that one?), he’s lived more than half of his life as a millionaire.

As with the news shows and many other programmes, it would do no harm to sweep out the mediocre, over-upholstered establishment favourites and nourish new talent.

In the case of MOTD, that would mean skipping a generation or two to leave the present second tier idiots behind.

Why do we need presenters anyway? Or pundits?

 

[bluethrunthru]

Politics aside, Lineker’s a smug, very privileged individual whose own personal standards may or may not stand up to scrutiny.

A martyr he fkn well isn’t.

Whatever his origins, and despite once being of an ethnic minority (haha, remember that one?), he’s lived more than half of his life as a millionaire.

As with the news shows and many other programmes, it would do no harm to sweep out the mediocre, over-upholstered establishment favourites and nourish new talent.

In the case of MOTD, that would mean skipping a generation or two to leave the present second tier idiots behind.

You need to remove the personality from the discussion. What if someone is on Desert Island Discs and expresses anti- govt policy sentiments - is Lauren Laverne public enemy no 1? If Steve Cram says something the Govt don't like is the great north run no longer covered? Its the insidious mission creep of the fascism that has always happened - since the 1930's ironically