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

meltonblue said:
If someone doesn’t want to be accused of using language not dissimilar to that used in 1930s Germany, then don’t use language not dissimilar to that used in 1930s Germany.

Thinking making that point is suggesting the individual is as bad as those that committed the holocaust is either just wrong or very disingenuous. The comparison is the use of language and propaganda - not the actions that they enabled.
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This simple point appears to have escaped thousands - including certain contributors to this thread
 
Chippy_boy said:
Well you're entitle to your opinion of course and in the lefty echo-chamber that is Bluemoon, the usual posters (you can just name them already) doubtless will agree. But it was IMO a crass and deeply inappropriate comment.
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One thing he didn't say was all this bollox about the holocaust. He just said, and quite rightly in my humble opinion, was the rhetoric from that prk Braveman. Re left wing, sorry pal but most on bluemoon ARE Mancs. Home to co op, left wing politics due to farce of capitalism in industrial revolution, helped shaped the working class socialist mindset in Manc. Look at our City Council and MP's , not left enough for me. The stock broker belt is what you get with rightvwing politics, all white faces, no diversity, boring as fk culturally as well as being unbalanced
 
Mancity1980 said:
This interview by BBC News of Tim Davie:



tells me all I need to know about this situation. Davie and the other Tory backers at the BBC need to go, Lineker should then be allowed to decide if he wants to continue or not then the Conservative Party need to be held accountable for their efforts to undermine and influence the public sector broadcaster. Any Tory that subsequently comes electioneering to my front door will get a grilling on this issue, hopefully the voting public will see sense and kick them out of government.
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The issue with smirking when you say you are sorry is that it just makes you look like a saboteur who is finding it hard to supress how chuffed you are with yourself. Of course, it could just be that that is his resting face.
 
TinFoilHat said:
That statement sounds like a huge damage limitation statement.

I wonder if everyone that supported him this weekend said they do the same next and ruin their FA Cup coverage?
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of course it is - the 3 now in the firing line and desperately trying to avoid having to take to the lifeboats
 
bluethrunthru said:
wonder why this didn't get reported over the weekend?

www.bbc.co.uk

EU Referendum: Boris Johnson stands by Hitler EU comparison - BBC News

Senior Conservative Boris Johnson dismisses a row about his comparison of the EU with Hitler as an "artificial" media storm.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Probably because it was 7 years ago and people don't recall these things immediately.

Also Johnson isn't connected to the BBC so it's tangential to the main point of this row - BBC impartiality under this government.
 
Chippy_boy said:
Well your opinion is certainly in a minority it seems, despite perhaps not so on our left-leaning forum.

There's countless polls on the subject, but rather than risk your potential claim that the polls are biased, here's one from the Leicester Mercury, Leicester not being particularly renowned for its right wing bias and being his home town you'd imagine he'd get plenty of support. Other polls in e.g. the Daily Express are less forgiving still.

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The other comment I would make is that I am surprised the BBC are behaving as if this is some kind of difficult decision. Just get him sacked and move on. I wonder how many people watch MOTM just to hear their overpaid host say "What do you think, Alan". I imagine the show would cope without him.
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They live in an echo chamber.
 
bluethrunthru said:
of course it is - the 3 now in the firing line and desperately trying to avoid having to take to the lifeboats
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An honourable man would resign. Davie is proving people's suspicions by not doing so.

He's presided over this shit show and should move on as well.
 
domalino said:
Probably because it was 7 years ago and people don't recall these things immediately.

Also Johnson isn't connected to the BBC so it's tangential to the main point of this row - BBC impartiality under this government.
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no but he is - albeit loosely these days - connected with the UK govt - that govt that were putting pressure on their appointees at the BBC to get rid of Lineker and he didn't actually say Nazi,,,,nor Hitler for that matter
 
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