The BBC | Tim Davie resigns as Director General over Trump documentary edit (p 187)

BlueBanger said:
Yeahhhhh, why blame a lack of personal responsibility when you can blame "right wing politics" eh?. Give me one example of socialism working better than the capitalist system we have right now? I'd check your facts re the "working class socialist mindset" too...MAYBE the union types who, generally from my own experience, just want more for less with no real understanding of what it is they are standing for...

In this system we have generous benefits, free nhs, a consumer culture, a better life than ever before in history...see what happens after 20 years of socialism. Speech contrained to the point there is no longer any counter narrative, truth becomes something only whispered, an economy so broken it only serves the militaristic police state, and corruption on the scale that makes the current lot seem like saints.
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Total shit, particularly the "union types" bit. Go and educate yourself.
 
Tugay One Cup said:
What's really shocking is that anyone would refer to bluemoon as a left echo chamber.
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Other than that it is. Sorry, but that's just the fact of the matter. There are far more left-leaning posts and posters on here than the other way around and the commentary on here is similarly left-leaning more often than not.
 
Roachy said:
Total shit, particularly the "union types" bit. Go and educate yourself.
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I 've been to union meetings for decades and seen with my own eyes what the loudest voices are really like. SHIT work ethic and generally clueless as to the bigger picture.
 
Chippy_boy said:
What, the precedent of suspending people and then just letting them off? I was unaware that was their normal approach.
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Ah well if you’re arguing he shouldn’t have been suspended, then yes, I agree.

Thought you were saying he should have been sacked and by not doing that was setting a precedent.
 
It looks like all the sports presenters went on strike, no ballot, just withdrew labour. Had that been the train drivers then what kind of reception would the BBC news have given the Rail Union boss?
 
....and the only ones that can replace the Chairman is the Govt.

Does anyone see much changing here? Will it merely mean the BBC will tighten up contracts on what can and cannot be said. (thus a step backwards and chiselling out that Orwell quote....)
 
meltonblue said:
Ah well if you’re arguing he shouldn’t have been suspended, then yes, I agree.

Thought you were saying he should have been sacked and by not doing that was setting a precedent.
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No, I think he should have been sacked.

But the precedent being set is that it's OK to break the rules if you are popular enough and important enough. It's not a good move.
 
Is Gary Lineker a man of substance ? If he's so right in his convictions one might argue he should have told the BBC where to stick it. Either he believes in the right to free speech without censure or he's happy to work for an employer than tries to stop him having a voice on matters other than sport ? And to carry on working for an employer that a sizeable number might think was pressured by the Government into censuring him in the hope they'd sack him ?
Presumably those pundits and commentators in the "back Gary campaign" are quite happy now that GL is back behind the camera ?
 
Ric said:
The BBC handled the whole episode terribly, and a humiliating climbdown like this was inevitable. Glad that common sense has eventually prevailed and that Lineker will return to the show, but Tim Davie and Richard Sharp should be considering their own positions.
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So cancel them then?
 
somapop said:
....and the only ones that can replace the Chairman is the Govt.

Does anyone see much changing here? Will it merely mean the BBC will tighten up contracts on what can and cannot be said. (thus a step backwards and chiselling out that Orwell quote....)
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From the sounds of it the employees of the BBC have shown they're staunchly against stricter interpretations of the impartiality law.

I expect they'll have a policy where impartiality doesn't apply to freelance presenters or people outside the newsrooms.
 
mattcity5 said:
I expect the government will manage to put all the blame at the BBC's door though and then use the situation as another reason to privatise the BBC and sell everything off to their mates.

bylinetimes.com

BBC Chairman Donated Tens of Thousands of Pounds to Right-Wing Group Funding Criticism of BBC

Richard Sharp has pumped money into a group that almost funds organisations like the TaxPayers' Alliance, Eurosceptics, and the BBC-bashing News-Watch
bylinetimes.com bylinetimes.com
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How is that donation "charitable" rather than political?
 
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