Well the BBC have created the biggest shitshow of their own making in suspending their flagship football presenter Gary Lineker because he tweeted about the similarity in the rhetoric around the governments new illegal immigration bill having echos of 1930s Germany - something many organisations have also flagged and a bill the UN declared in breech of international law.
Tory MPs cried about impartiality, failing to realise that impartiality also means BBC employees should be able to criticise the government without fear or favour, especially those in none-news roles. It hit the headlines all day Wednesday but was yesterdays chip paper by Thursday and had quietened down by Friday.
And then rather than being thankful it had blown over the BBC, ran by an ex-Tory candidate and a Tory donor, suspended him under the guise of holding up impartiality.
It has backfired spectacularly. Presenters, pundits, commentators and staff have all effectively walked out meaning no football programming today on TV or radio, and at the moment Match of the Day will only be clips from matches assuming they can find someone to edit it together.
One of the biggest disasters in the BBC’s history really - I’d be surprised if there weren’t resignations at the very top next week given how poorly it has been handled and how the DG and Chairman have compromised the BBC’s independence by cowering to political pressure from the Tory government.