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You will hear Clareâs voice at post-match interviews during Nine and Stanâs live coverage of Wimbledon singles finals in early July.
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 BBCâs history really - Iâd be surprised if there werenât resignations at the very top next week given how poorly it has been handled and how the DG and Chairman have compromised the BBCâs independence by cowering to political pressure from the Tory government.
The contact he signed says âstaff in news and other factual journalism sectors as well as senior corporation leaders will be held to a higher standardâ and âpersonal social media activity must also comply with the bbc editorial guidelines as though it were bbc outputâ
I guess whatâs up for debate is if sports coverage is deemed to fall under âfactual journalismâ and if as BBCS highest paid talent hes considered a âsenior corporation leaderâ
I suspect bbc solicited legal advice before acting to remove Gary and lawyers advised that they were within their rights.
If Gary wishes to take it to court Iâm sure he will.
In my opinion this was what pushed it beyond opinion. If he hadnât likened it to a Nazi policy then he would have been fine.
Linekar didnât liken the policy to 1930s Germany - he said the language used by the government to describe/promote the policy isnât dissimilar to the language used during that period.
While I agree with you that invoking that period was the âtipping pointâ, thereâs a significant yet important differentiation.
Its been reported that Lineker is a freelancer (and doesnât work in News) - so itâs highly likely that some of these rules donât apply to him.
It was ok for him to call out Qatarâs shithouse human rights record in the lead-up to the World Cup.
Yet again the manufactured sideshow it taking coverage away from the real story
Struggling to see how Lineker isnât being treated differently to other BBC freelancer/contractors here.
Bit of a disaster really. Only real way I see this resolving is with the bosses stepping down and Lineker being reinstated.
Presenters boycotting sports coverage isnât making the management look any better.
Probably because he is the face of their football coverage, and synonymous with the MOTD program, while the other guy is not synonymous with the BBC.
A lesson in not making such big calls last thing on Friday only to have to reverse them first thing Monday morning.
Still think the positions of the Chairman and DG are untenable and hope they go this week - indeed the DG is very unapologetic and clearly seeks to resolve this by tightening guidelines rather than protecting employees and freelancers, and hence the independence and integrity of the BBC.
Yes, no regional TV today in England at least and as the strike began in the middle of many local radio shows they went off air mid show.
Back to the impartiality row and it wonât get the coverage Lineker did but it is the crux of the matter - far more serious in fact - and records are now beginning to emerge of the government dictating what langugage the BBC should use in reporting stories, specifically the first âlockdownâ, which the BBC didnât call a lockdown under Tory instruction. Also journalists were told to be more sceptical of opposition proposals for the easing of lockdown.
To get context on what is the reasoning behind the strike, it is due to the impeding merger of the BBC News Channel with BBC World News, and a plan to cut the number of hours on local radio content, introducing more regionalized and networked programming. Even if the plans were revised, this didnât make the unions well. The strike, which is being called indefinitely, could also disrupt coverage of the coronation of the King and the Eurovision Song Contest.
In the middle of this, and back to presentation-related things, the BBC kids channels have quietly rebranded and been unified into the new Chameleon brand system. CBeebies has dropped the Lambie-Nairn presentation used since its launch in 2002, including its logo, and the blob elements were made fully square. Over to the CBBC channel (which is set to close later next year), they got a new look based on fluid elements and a color palette very similar to BBC Three.
