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For what it's worth, this whole thing strikes me as confected rage. The Daily Mail reporting of 'anger' is about as wide of the mark as you can get, if you stick with the bind of 'trust worthy reporting'. I mean, isn't this the same organisation that had Andrew Neil literally leading aspects of political coverage, whilst wearing an Adam Smith Institute tie? 

Linekar is a sports and entertainment presenter who, as I understand it, isn't on an exclusive BBC contract, nor likely to be hosting Newsnight any time soon. 

I think it does the public an enormous disservice to assume that they can't differentiate between the personal (and, quite frankly, legitimate) views of a personality and then the impartiality that comes with BBC News. Presentational perspective, though, is important. I think part of the move towards more 'process' aspects in reporting (i.e. reporters at their desks and the monitors in the newsroom) is in part to counter the idea of bias (such as it is) and to explain how impartiality actually works. 

Meanwhile, over on GBeebies, they've got whichever latest cabinet flunky to spout party lines and none of this...