To be honest, when Charlton do badly I can't watch any football on a Saturday or Sunday morning. It is still too raw for me. So I hardly ever watch MOTD. Lineker may get too much money but he is a good presenter and I like Ian Wright's passion and Shearer is very knowledgable. That to me is a fact whether you like them or not. Some people don't like them and that colours their view of how they do their jobs which is ridiculous.
Good on them all. Freedom of speech, provided it is within the law, should be encouraged and preserved.
It is absolutely ludicrous for the BBC to seek to moderate the (legal) social media activity of a freelancer unless they have the contractual basis to do so (which the "step back" farce suggests they don't). Very silly and very preventable and an A1 way to blow the whole situation up tenfold.
As a general principle I am all for 'Freedom of Speech' but, that said, the BBC is supposed to be impartial and its highest paid presenter presumably has a duty to appear impartial too.
I don't recall this public outcry when Lineker was tweeting and generally supporting the REMAIN cause prior to the EU Referendum to quote one example.
Maybe Lineker has stepped out of line once too often given his prestigious role as mentioned above.
This really should be in capital letters - the impartiality rules only apply to news and current affairs staff. Lineker is a sports freelancer. It is isn’t complicated. BBC, government and some right wing commentators are now trying to say as he is high profile and highly paid it should apply to him. Someone is trying to retrospectively change the rules. Andrew Neil is a very good broadcaster but they chose to ignore the rules for him ( he is possibly a freelancer)
The thing about the Attenborough decision; even if you take out the rights and wrongs behind the motive, why have they spent so much money producing an episode that can only be viewed on iplayer? Is that a good use of money?
Glad they all got their month in the Qatari sun, staying in lavish hotels with fine dining thrown in, completely in the knowledge that 6000+ lives were lost as a direct result of the tournament being staged (and possibly during the construction of those very hotels they stayed in), but have now found their collective voice in the search for truth and justice.
Does MOTD even need presenters? I always fast forward through the punditry.
I think that tomorrow's MOTD may well have no presenters and just highlights with post match interviews. Who, seriously, with an ounce of belief in free speech and the same rules being applied to everyone be they Lineker or Sugar, is going to take the job?
The thing about the Attenborough decision; even if you take out the rights and wrongs behind the motive, why have they spent so much money producing an episode that can only be viewed on iplayer? Is that a good use of money?
Syndication rights etc if it's sold on to America etc.
I don’t much care what Linekar tweets one way or the other. I don’t associate his views with the BBC one way or the other.
I find it equally crass that politicians even commented on him earlier in the week. He is unimportant as I think he may have intimated himself in one tweet.
The only possible defence to this action tonight is whether he did something he previously told the BBC he would not. In that case there might be a conversation needed if other presenters / journalists are being treated differently and he has put his colleagues and employers in a difficult position internally. Even then however the BBC statement doesn’t really read that way.
Easy for him to take his stance as no real jeopardy for him.
This will probably get deleted by the mods but I am absolutely fuming and not because I care about Gary Linkear
1) He is a sports presenter so as I understand it hasn't broken impartiality rules as they don't apply in his case.
2) What he said was 100% on the money. We are approaching Enoch Powell territory but no one seems to give a shit
3) The BBC are actively caving to right wing populism. Combine this with the the shit that gets printed by Murdoch press and all the social media fake news, what chance do we have.
Seems tolerance, compassion and general decency are truly a thing of the past.
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Happier ending that way too.
"I'm not due to be on motd tomorrow, but if I was I wouldn't go on"
Yeah cheers for that Mica 😂 I'm not due to be on there either mate !
Gary Lineker
Ian Wright
Alan Shearer
Alex Scott
Micah Richards
What's @LouisMend up to tomorrow?
Des Lynam 2/1 fav
It is absolutely ludicrous for the BBC to seek to moderate the (legal) social media activity of a freelancer unless they have the contractual basis to do so (which the "step back" farce suggests they don't). Very silly and very preventable and an A1 way to blow the whole situation up tenfold.
Could she step in seeing as how she has been 'in waiting' so long?
As a general principle I am all for 'Freedom of Speech' but, that said, the BBC is supposed to be impartial and its highest paid presenter presumably has a duty to appear impartial too.
I don't recall this public outcry when Lineker was tweeting and generally supporting the REMAIN cause prior to the EU Referendum to quote one example.
Maybe Lineker has stepped out of line once too often given his prestigious role as mentioned above.
Or perhaps Godwin's rule has come into play.
Solidarity 🙄
1) He is a sports presenter so as I understand it hasn't broken impartiality rules as they don't apply in his case.
2) What he said was 100% on the money. We are approaching Enoch Powell territory but no one seems to give a shit
3) The BBC are actively caving to right wing populism. Combine this with the the shit that gets printed by Murdoch press and all the social media fake news, what chance do we have.
Seems tolerance, compassion and general decency are truly a thing of the past.
Mcclair nowdays.