I watch them on a Sunday morning when my daughter had gotten me up at daft o’clock. She dances to the music so I assume she doesn’t mind.Originally Posted by 7om
I watch them on a Sunday morning when my daughter had gotten me up at daft o’clock. She dances to the music so I assume she doesn’t mind.
Yep. Cancelled.
You know the world is slightly broken when the BBC has a breaking news livetext bit for football focus being replaced by bargain hunt.
I await David Dickinsons statement on whether he will be presenting MOTD.
BBC going with a guy in blackface as the stand in a bold choice.
Final score now cancelled too.
Drain The BBC.
Edit: that sounded better in my head.
Feels like this has now gone too far, with the organisation almost obligated to call the pro-Lineker mob's bluff now and tell them it hopes they enjoy their new found liberation from paid employment.
The WSL game they were going to show tomorrow is also in doubt.
The voice of impartiality has spoken.
5Live won't be providing coverage of games now.
This is fucking glorious.
Lewis frantically defending the government again. Beautiful.
And he says that he isn't pro-government.
He's not pro-government. He's pro-BBC. Loves a bit of Miranda.
This is a proper shit show now, as the BBC simply cannot sack everyone involved by this point, let alone the numbers it might amount to after the day is out.
You can easily argue twitter is outside of BBC's remit unless they slapped social media clauses into his contract. Also, Andrew Neil looks redder than the surface of Mars.
Fucking hell.5Live won't be providing coverage of games now.
This is a cultural death rattle for British conservatism. Totally needless but the calibre of person in the government is just not up to scratch unfortunately.
It's slightly ironic that the most anti-BBC person here seems to be the only person who can see how slacking on impartiality will kill it.
The BBC has been slacking on impartiality for decades. They let Clarkson get away with it right up until he punched a member of staff in the face.
They could atleast let Wayney Links deliver a kidneyshot to Suella Braverman before they send him to present Games Of The Evening on Amazon Prime.
The people supposedly enforcing impartiality here aren't trying to protect the BBC. They're trying to destroy it out of frustration that it doesn't offer favourable coverage to their pet political positions.
Clarkson tended to get told off for things, but 1) his interventions were either lol ones or about trivial things; and 2) for a long time he was making them far too much money. Maybe Crisps should have just been properly warned or canned years ago, rather than being allowed to say what he wanted, which has contributed to the climate that has now forced their hands.
The impartiality's just a marketing buzzword. There's not much impartiality in broadcast news. News without a narrative is just, "These are the things that have happened." without any context. What are people meant to do with that?
I know your politics is essentially that pushing back on things is vulgar, but, from the perspective of the BBC, isn't impartiality worth a try?
impartiality in editorial terms, sure, try that, or even from the "current affairs" people, but why should the ones presenting the footy be "impartial"? why does it matter?
I'm not sure why I'm engaging tho, cus Lew will always default to an opinion on stuff like this, then work backwards to try to intellectually justify it.
The stance isn't remotely about the BBC even though that's the angle being pushed.
For Naga Munchetty, yes, but not for Gary Lineker.
Do we know what's actually happening with MOTD tonight yet? Is it actually cancelled? Or are they just going to cobble together the key highlights and get the work experience kid to freestyle over it?
Typical white privilege.
My opinion is that the BBC only exists insofar as it can convince a majority of the population that it at least attempts to be impartial, and that having its best-known and best-paid presenter spouting off against the government and associating a policy most voters support with the Holocaust might just give a lot of people reason to doubt that impartiality. In the long-term, this will not work in the BBC's favour.
I know whenever I point these things out it's easy for you all to stick your heads up the collective arse and accuse me of defending the government, but is this not actually obvious?
bro, I see your argument, but it's a shit one. lineker being best-known is citation needed, him being best paid is largely irrelevant, he does the footy, who gives a shit
Do you think everybody except newsreaders being allowed to say whatever they like will make it easier or harder to defend the BBC?
defend it from whom, exactly
The people who might decide that being compelled to pay for something that is openly hostile to them isn't particularly worthwhile. Why not politicise the football coverage if we shouldn't expect impartiality? Maybe the BBC could adopt a team and just show Man City highlights because they score the most goals and people like goals.
Communism, Igor. Communism.
Is that even true? Even if it is, what difference would it make? It'd be OK if he'd voiced an opinion which the majority of the voters support?
Which happens in literally every news bulletin. I haven't heard Ol' Vladdy Putin be given a fair shake of the stick.
The BBC is not impartial, never mind the employees. They just have to stay the right side of the personal views of management.
Which is my point with all of this if he supported Brexit and the boats being stopped none of this would be an issue.
I dunno, I reckon twitter would be pretty pissed at that as well.
Where does this go from here? Is this a one week thing or is the entirety of BBC Sport now on strike until Gary gets reinstated with full privileges to say whatever he wants on social media?
In before this is all revealed to be a work to get people to watch Match of the Day again.
BT looking to secure Crisps for next season. Jake Humphrey in the mud.
Jake Humphrey really gets away with being a terrible, terrible person. 'The High Performance Podcast' is everything wrong with the 21st century West.
That podcast is absolute dogshit isn't it.
The real winner will be Alan Shearer, who will be free to join Sky Sports as their Newcastle Pundit on Roy Keane money.
The BEEB have apologised, and Gary is back. Poor Lewis.
The smarmy pun and wink to the camera at 22:32 GMT this Saturday will be the TV moment of the decade.
Should do it in his pants again
The US president, Joe Biden, rejected the accusation, saying the submarines would be “nuclear-powered, not nuclear-armed”
I wouldn't worry about it, I'm sure the Aussies will be game to give full access to a bunch of brown and yellow lads to make sure it's all above board. Maybe sanction the shit out of them for a few decades too, just to be safe.
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