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Lineker, being about the best presenter and pundit around
will find work all over, and increase his profile away from footy free bbc. Tufton Street will continue their propaganda by whatever means they can. |
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So his position becomes untenable because he has the audactity to have an opinion on politics and brexit?
Chairman Mao must be pissing himself at what we've become. |
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Cancel Culture and the Free Speech Union. The Libertarians do not really want liberty
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Kit Malthouse next to be cancelled by the Free Speech Nation and Libertarians
“Many of us in this chamber have been trying to spur the government into action over the past few months. We have tried anger and outrage and got nowhere, and we have tried shaming ministers into action and got nowhere, so maybe we need to beg. Do those on the Treasury bench need us to beg for the lives of those Palestinian children before they will trigger that concrete action, whatever it might be?” |
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PoP - it wasn't so much his audacity at having an opinion, nor the subjects that he chose to opine about, but the fact that he effectively ignored his employers warnings about their impartiality rules. Whether you agree with them or not the rules are there, the BBC is supposed to be neutral on such matters and Lineker chose to carry on regardless. There have been plenty of commentators who actually support him and his views saying this week that the BBC and Lineker had no alternative but to part ways as a result.
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spot on Dixie. In senior positions in the Civil Service and the public sector you also have to be politically neutral and cant express political opinions. Its not a difficult concept to understand
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His employers have impartiality rules for him but no others
All others free to push right wing agendas |
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Jonathan Cook
Sickening to watch BBC News spin-doctoring Britain's culpability and complicity for Israel's genocide in Gaza. Political editor Chris Mason talks of the UK's growing realisation of its "limited agency" over Israel, while conversely international editor Jeremy Bowen says we are seeing from the government the first demands for "accountability" from Israel. Neither analysis is true. The British government can do lots to hold Israel to account but is doing none of it, apart from offering empty rhetoric that is greeted with a chorus of nodding heads and mock-frowns in parliament. The UK can stop arms sales to Israel, stop transfers from its RAF base on Cyprus of US and German weapons to Israel, stop UK spy slights over Gaza to provide Israel with intelligence, tear up trade agreements, impose economic sanctions, ban Israel from cultural and sporting events, and much, much more. And these two big BBC editors both fail to give expression to what is at the forefront of every viewer's mind: How has it taken 19 months of Israel slaughtering and starving Gaza's children, live-streamed to our homes, for the UK government only now to notice the horror and begin talking about accountability? |
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spot on yhtl
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That did make me laugh YHTL - can you please namecheck all of these "others" at the bbc with their right wing agendas ?
And Jonathan Cook is hardly the independent journalist he purports to be, he is not averse to conspiracy theories and is pretty much a useful idiot for Hamas. |
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You've just posted your own agenda, lol.
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Bit of deflection their YHTL. You made a claim about bbc right wingers being able to push their agendas - surely you were not making it up ?
I have no agenda, do i support Israel in their battle with Hamas ? Overall, yes i do. Do i support what they are doing at the moment in Gaza ? No i don't. |
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No I didn't make it up.
Get over yerself |
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A typical response. You make a claim that you refuse to back up with any evidence and i'm the one who's supposed to get over himself ?
Names please. |
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There's loads of evidence, I've even outlined one guy.
How many more do you expect |
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"All others free to push right wing agendas" points to there being a whole host of presenters, and you say you've "even" outlined ONE guy, lol. You know you can't back up your claim, because knowing you i would have received a long list of names by now if you could.
And if the "one" you refer to is Chris Mason, where is there any evidence to support your accusation ? Because i can't find any. |
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Lineker is one guy
Andrew Neil is one guy One allowed to pedal right wing agendas free from comment, censure. the other hounded. Laura kuensberg free to pedal right wing agendas, fiona Bruce and her tory connections,... Boris Johnson stacked bbc with right wing tories Even sold a position for a loan arrangement until that became untenable Michael portillo riding round on trains whilst esposing tory values to all and sundry But but but lineker |
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Emily Maitlis has said a BBC board member is an “active agent of the Conservative party” who is shaping the broadcaster’s news output by acting “as the arbiter of BBC impartiality”.
The former Newsnight presenter highlighted the role of Sir Robbie Gibb, who previously worked as Theresa May’s director of communications and helped to found the rightwing GB News channel. Last year he was appointed to the BBC’s board by Boris Johnson’s government and has since influenced a series of ongoing reviews of the broadcaster’s editorial output. |
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Crikey, i honestly thought you could do better than that YHTL. I was hoping for something inflammatory like Linekers posts.
The viewing/listening public don't see/hear board members, only the presenters. Emily Maitlis, FFS. Anyone credible you can quote ? The BBC has long been accused of being too far left so a rebalance has been overdue anyway. I must remember to manage my expectations in future. |
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Why? It's highlighting the bias sufficiently for normal people
to see, The swivel eyed loons will continue to struggle |
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The BBC are far from left, however unlike the 70s,80s they do actually broadcast some truths which the "Brittania rules the waves" mob don't want to hear.
I won't hold my breath for the "mountbatten kincora" documentary though, they haven't changed that much. |
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Have the BBC acknowledged that the first Indian Prime Minister was banging the Viceroy’s wife… “ Lady “ Edwina Mountbatten?
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BBC in a nutshell
Marr: “How can you know I’m self-censoring?” Chomsky: “I’m not saying you’re self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you say. But what I’m saying is if you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.” |
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Andrew Neill is a Tory but he wasn't using his BBC shows to push right wing stuff.
If he had been then why didn't Boris agree to the interview at the 2019 election? Because Neil was intending to wipe the floor with Boris, and, as Cummings later admitted, likely would have done just that. Melvyn Bragg was another top broadcaster, but a Labour guy. It was silly that he had to be taken off 'Start the Week' when an election campaign started due to his supposed 'bias'. Neil and Bragg are smart enough to see all angles of an issue so they can play devil's advocate and and give a tough time to any point of view. Midwits like Emily Maitlis are totally incapable of seeing there is more than one side to an issue. |
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Lineker was the victim of 'cancel culture' though. No one should be sacked from a job due to their political opinions.
Whether the people complaining about this instance of cancel culture would be opposed to it in principle I rather doubt. |
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Andrew Neill is a Tory but he wasn't using his BBC shows to push right wing stuff.
Gary Lineker holds left wing views but he wasn't using his bbc shows to push left wing stuff |
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true
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Lineker did not call out Israel for their terrible behaviour on Match Of The Day.
Perhaps the BBC will get AI deep fake presenters to avoid the possibility of non-BBC boardroom opinions? |
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Dua Lipa, Gary Lineker and Benedict Cumberbatch sign letter calling on PM to halt all arms sales to Israel
Hundreds of stars, including Dua Lipa, Benedict Cumberbatch and Gary Lineker, have called on Sir Keir Starmer to end the UK’s arms sales to Israel as Benjamin Netanyahu continues his assault on Gaza. |
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What is worse Lineker making a tweet or Labour sending a Business Adviser to Israel to get a trade deal with War criminals?
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Gary Lineker has moved his podcast endeavours to the streaming titan DAZN following his departure from the BBC.
The illustrious 'The Rest Is Football' podcast, which sees Lineker teaming up with Alan Shearer and Micah Richards, will benefit from incorporating Club World Cup footage into its video editions due to this alliance. |