20-03-2023, 01:22 AM
(13-03-2023, 03:23 AM)Jon Wrote: Had a look at the beginning of Free Speech nation to see if the Free Speech absolutists would defend his right to say what he said. The line from Andrew Doyle was along lines of ‘Lineker signed a contract which means he can’t attack the government’, which I don’t think seems to be true. But you just know if he’d said something they’d agreed with about gender ideology he agreed with, he’d be incensed even if the contract forbid It and incensed that contract forbid it. I expect these kind of inconsistencies from the right wing shock jocks, but Doyle is supposedly left leaning and presents himself as more measured than those. I imagine there is a fear of a Fox News style backlash from viewers.Doyle most certainly isn’t left-leaning. I’d say he’s right-of-centre, he just appears a bit more left-leaning because of how radically right the rest of the channel are.
And watching the start of that ‘Alternative MOTD’ and at least Eamonn Holmes stuck up for Lineker in his short down the line interview. With the hosts admitting he’d been getting 48 hours of stick from the channel till that point.
The only one I’d say is somewhat left leaning is Steve N Allen.
And then Eamonn is more centrist.