Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - Printable Version

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - interestednovice - 11-03-2023

(11-03-2023, 12:10 AM)Milkshake Wrote:  What an absolute mess this has become, However it's a very simple matter, which Ive now come to release, and Ive changed my tune., if Gary can say what he likes.  Answer is No, he has a wider responsibility:

Gary Lineker has alienated nearly half the audience, and the battle lines which have now appear is making so clear where people stand.

Trouble is Gary is also one of the highest paid people within the BBC on a Flagship show.... which means keep you mouth shout, because your going to hack off someone, and the BBC is for everyone, that what this is really all about. 

Its going to overshadow everything..

Yes, that’s what I was trying to say earlier really - just much clearer put.

I think that’s the case whether it’s in your contract or not, and that’s the end of it. It might mean you feel neutered on social media, but that’s the price you pay for working for the BBC. Emily Maitlis, as one example, decided she didn’t want to go along with that and quit. I’m sure others have come to the same decision.

It’s up to the individual, if they want to be outspoken or not (and leave the BBC if they do), at the end of the day.

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - Kojak - 11-03-2023

(11-03-2023, 01:09 AM)RhysJR Wrote:  Meanwhile in Westminster...

https://twitter.com/christiancalgie/status/1634311175348387841 

Oh, for crying out loud…! See, if the BBC had stood their ground and said/done nothing, this wouldn’t have happened. Instead we now have these sharks circling because they’ve smelt blood in the water. Complete and total overreaction.

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - James2001 - 11-03-2023

https://twitter.com/Dutts4/status/1634326788301103105 

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - Will - 11-03-2023

(11-03-2023, 01:09 AM)RhysJR Wrote:  Meanwhile in Westminster...

https://twitter.com/christiancalgie/status/1634311175348387841 

So they expect the BBC to be impartial but also expect them to cave into the demands of the governing party when somebody dares to criticise government policy? Truly deluded.

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - Worzel - 11-03-2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-64922157 

So he leaves the building to go home in the wake of a massive crisis and says it's basically up to the sport department to clear up the mess which is MOTD? That's nice. I thought he kept banging on about having a 'good culture' at the BBC?

I suspect there'll be a few 'Walkers' in a few days time!

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - IanJRedman - 11-03-2023

I get the feeling Davie may have signed his own resignation at this point.

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - James2001 - 11-03-2023

(11-03-2023, 01:26 AM)IanJRedman Wrote:  I get the feeling Davie may have signed his own resignation at this point.

Wouldn't be suprised to see half of the people at the top of the BBC go after this mess.

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - interestednovice - 11-03-2023

Oh dear, that’s a failure of leadership however you look at the rest of the affair!

To be honest, if the BBC was to be under any kind of investigation, it shouldn’t be for this. It should be for things like whether it was justified in cutting the news channel or not - and Davie himself gave evidence to a Commons Select Committee where he denied the channel was closing and said it was going to be “one channel, two streams”. Meaningless buzzwords arguably deliberately designed to mislead MPs - and never interrogated by the Committee because it’s always stuff like this that gets the attention. It does all seem so much like W1A in real life!

Davie could end up being the next George Entwistle (remember him?) at this rate.

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - James2001 - 11-03-2023

It's vaguely amusing in what was meant to be an attempt to reinforce the BBC's impartiality, they've made them look like a Tory mouthpiece instead. Hard to see how it could have backfired much worse.

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - Worzel - 11-03-2023

(11-03-2023, 01:28 AM)interestednovice Wrote:  Oh dear, that’s a failure of leadership however you look at the rest of the affair!

To be honest, if the BBC was to be under any kind of investigation, it shouldn’t be for this. It should be for things like whether it was justified in cutting the news channel or not - and Davie himself gave evidence to a Commons Select Committee where he denied the channel was closing and said it was going to be “one channel, two streams”. Meaningless buzzwords arguably deliberately designed to mislead MPs - and never interrogated by the Committee because it’s always stuff like this that gets the attention. It does all seem so much like W1A in real life!

Davie could end up being the next George Entwistle (remember him?) at this rate.

Just to add to the select committee line. To be fair, the DCMS select committee did quiz Tim Davie quite heavily about the changes to the BBC News channel in an evidence session last year around the time of the announcement about merging World News and the News channel.

Julie Elliot who was the chair raised the point that she thought that the changes in output would require a consultation by Ofcom and the BBC weren't going to ask for a watering down of the broadcast licence as well as how domestic Breaking News would be impacted with only a small live team available. John Nicolson also raised the point that World News viewers wouldn't be interested in the rainfall in Carlisle. Tim Davie couldn't explain how the streams would work or how the breaking news live team would work in any great detail.

Back to Linekergate...

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