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Lineker and Attenborough

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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    And predictably the Minsters who called for Lineker to be sacked are now reading the room and saying that they didn't want him to go. They have made a martyr of him and made the whole situation the issue rather than that of immigration. Serves 'em right. 
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Gribbo said:
    JaShea99 said:
    Obvs Lineker’s all over the news but what’s Atts done?
    Said parrots only have 2 genders

    😂
    Who's a clever boy, who's a clever boy.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    100% Team Lineker. The BBC has lost its mind as well as its impartiality. 
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,966
    Can I just add that I won't be appearing on MotD tomorrow night either, in solidarity
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Richard Sharp the Banker and Boris Johnson's buddy as Chairman of the BBC and suddenly there's a shift to the right.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    VERY important .. will freelance Lineker's absence be paid or unpaid ? 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    Two people sharing a drink - and with something in common too


  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    Leuth said:
    Don't lock the thread and relegate the discussion to a stupid sub-board only read by nerds. I want to see what people actually think of this

    Regardless of whether you agree with what Lineker has to say, he's breached impartiality rules and decided to stick by it.

    Reckon he was planning on jacking it in anyway, and thought he'd go out with a bit of publicity for his next gig, as I doubt he'll be completing frozen out of mainstream media, as other have been. 

    GB News = 1000/1
    Channel 4 = 1/2
    Charlton Live = 50/1

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  • Addickted4life
    Addickted4life Posts: 7,467
    I'm awaiting @MrBurns nuanced, serious and balanced take on this matter to form my opinion.  
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,315
    Gribbo said:
    Leuth said:
    Don't lock the thread and relegate the discussion to a stupid sub-board only read by nerds. I want to see what people actually think of this

    Regardless of whether you agree with what Lineker has to say, he's breached impartiality rules and decided to stick by it.

    Reckon he was planning on jacking it in anyway, and thought he'd go out with a bit of publicity for his next gig, as I doubt he'll be completing frozen out of mainstream media, as other have been. 

    GB News = 1000/1
    Channel 4 = 1/2
    Charlton Live = 50/1

    These rules are breached all the time, though! Why claim a major scalp now? 

    As I said, ugly as this is, not airing a program that analyses why our nature is being destroyed AS IT MIGHT ANGER A POLITICAL DEMOGRAPHIC is what's really driving me mad 
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,222
    I fought for free speech 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,315
    Leuth said:
    Gribbo said:
    Leuth said:
    Don't lock the thread and relegate the discussion to a stupid sub-board only read by nerds. I want to see what people actually think of this

    Regardless of whether you agree with what Lineker has to say, he's breached impartiality rules and decided to stick by it.

    Reckon he was planning on jacking it in anyway, and thought he'd go out with a bit of publicity for his next gig, as I doubt he'll be completing frozen out of mainstream media, as other have been. 

    GB News = 1000/1
    Channel 4 = 1/2
    Charlton Live = 50/1

    These rules are breached all the time, though! Why claim a major scalp now? 

    As I said, ugly as this is, not airing a program that analyses why our nature is being destroyed AS IT MIGHT ANGER A POLITICAL DEMOGRAPHIC is what's really driving me mad 
    That even portrays (some) farmers in a really positive light!!
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 5,978
    edited March 2023
    Saw the thread title and thought this was a new TV show.
  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 4,987
    Don't forget last night their Question Time host defended Boris Johnson's dad breaking his mum's nose as "it was a one off."

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2023/03/10/fiona-bruce-calls-stanley-johnsons-domestic-abuse-one-off-on-question-time-18421206/amp/

    This was when discussing and defending Stanley Johnson potentially being made a 'sir'
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    Leuth said:
    Gribbo said:
    Leuth said:
    Don't lock the thread and relegate the discussion to a stupid sub-board only read by nerds. I want to see what people actually think of this

    Regardless of whether you agree with what Lineker has to say, he's breached impartiality rules and decided to stick by it.

    Reckon he was planning on jacking it in anyway, and thought he'd go out with a bit of publicity for his next gig, as I doubt he'll be completing frozen out of mainstream media, as other have been. 

    GB News = 1000/1
    Channel 4 = 1/2
    Charlton Live = 50/1

    These rules are breached all the time, though! Why claim a major scalp now? 

    As I said, ugly as this is, not airing a program that analyses why our nature is being destroyed AS IT MIGHT ANGER A POLITICAL DEMOGRAPHIC is what's really driving me mad 
    Because Linekers a jug eared c***?
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    Gribbo said:
    Leuth said:
    Don't lock the thread and relegate the discussion to a stupid sub-board only read by nerds. I want to see what people actually think of this

    Regardless of whether you agree with what Lineker has to say, he's breached impartiality rules and decided to stick by it.

    Reckon he was planning on jacking it in anyway, and thought he'd go out with a bit of publicity for his next gig, as I doubt he'll be completing frozen out of mainstream media, as other have been. 

    GB News = 1000/1
    Channel 4 = 1/2
    Charlton Live = 50/1

    But so did Lord Sugar do when he tweeted in December about the strikes. But the BBC did nothing about that did they? 
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    https://www.facebook.com/bbccomedy/videos/when-you-drag-on-motd/10154920675851778/
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,761
    Leuth said:
    Jonniesta said:
    The Lineker thing is a terrible decision, the Attenborough one is political censorship from a supposedly impartial organisation, and is frankly disgraceful. How are nature and the planet appropriate for censorship? 
    Yeah, bad as the Lineker one is, it's the Attenborough one that's really got me. Staggering that they'd not want the DESTRUCTION OF OUR WILDLIFE reported accurately
    It's really angered me too. David Attenborough is someone who is trusted and reliable. When he shows what is going on in the natural world,  people listen and take note. Blue Planet showed just how polluted by plastic our oceans and seas are.

    People in this country need to know how much trouble nature is facing. 
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  • Foxycafc
    Foxycafc Posts: 1,210



    Alex Scott is out too, this is going to be hilarious
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    RedPanda said:
    Don't forget last night their Question Time host defended Boris Johnson's dad breaking his mum's nose as "it was a one off."

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2023/03/10/fiona-bruce-calls-stanley-johnsons-domestic-abuse-one-off-on-question-time-18421206/amp/

    This was when discussing and defending Stanley Johnson potentially being made a 'sir'

    That really bothers me. How many times does he have to punch his wife and break her nose for it to be an issue?
  • cashncarry
    cashncarry Posts: 980
    Curbs 33-1
  • Manic_mania
    Manic_mania Posts: 2,258
    I don't really understand why a football presenter has to be impartial politically? I mean, I'm assuming he's not treating MOTD like question time ?? 

    I get news reporters journalists etc as its about being seen to be balanced in reporting the news, but when did light entertainers ever fall under that remit??? 

    Doesn't Graham Norton make anti tory jokes on his show? Have I got news for you has Ian Hislopp holding sermon on a weekly basis... I just don't follow the logic of this at all.


    Saying that I don't think I've watched a BBC programme in at least a decade!

  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    arrogant of Lineker to endanger his £1.2m gravy train by thinking he was above impartiality rules, bring back Des Lynham!
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,761
    edited March 2023
    Alan Shearer won't appear on MOTD either, now in solidarity with Gary Lineker.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    edited March 2023
    What we may well see now is people seeking evidence of BBC presenters showing a lack of impartiality and getting away with it. A quick google shows the BBC Trust which was charged with investigating a complaint against Laura Kuensberg found her guilty of it in 2017. What happened? The trust was dispanded soon afterwards. I can see no apology on her part. I'm sure there are loads of examples out there.

    I had no issue with Lineker tweeting Bin Corbyn, and I don't recall Tory MPs or the BBC having a problem with it either. He didn't do it on MOTD and it was his view.
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,605
    The impartiality thing is utter nonsense.
    It's been a very very long time since the Beeb was impartial.
    I can't watch Question Time anymore, it's ridiculous.

    To take on Attenborough though? Ridiculous.

    Whoever is making these decisions clearly wants the Beeb to crash & burn.
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