Unless you’re Andrew Neill or Alan Sugar or lots of other figures.
there’s an impartiality issue at the beeb and those who breach the rules should be gone, end of. be it sugar, neil or lineker
First they came for Emily
Then they came for Richard and Gary…
I’m not sure that’s realistic. Can nobody who presents a show on BBC write an opinion piece in a newspaper?
he did the same thing as you do and ran straight to godwin. be you left or right, if you breach impartiality you should be fired. public service broadcasting should not be political, precisely so that they can call politicians to account on either the left or right
So in your view any BBC sports presenter who ever expresses an opinion that the Nazis were bad should be sacked, because that would be a lack of impartiality?
it would be fairly simple to insert an impartiality clause into contracts or code of conduct if not already there. of course the enforcement of the clause is the issue. and besides, the beeb pays well enough for them not to be scratching around with other employment
actually they do have them in the code
Section 4: Impartiality - Guidelines - Editorial Guidelines (bbc.com)
“Godwin” isn’t a point. Godwin himself says that his “law” is no longer accurate when it comes to dealing with modern fascism and its rhetoric and that Nazi comparisons are accurate.
If a BBC sports presenter expresses a view that the Nazis were bad, should they be sacked?
It’s a simple question.
saying the nazis is bad is not a problem, comparing some to the nazis is a totally different kettle of fish and in most cases factually incorrect
Saying the Nazis are bad is not an impartial view.
Lineker is fundamentally correct in his comparison of propaganda techniques by the UK Government to 1930s Germany.
It’ll be interesting to see if there’s a Match Of The Day tomorrow night. Jermaine Jenas seems like the type who’d be scab labour.
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Ian Wright has pulled out anyway.
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Time to get a proper presenter in there now
The Guardian
Why do you think they’re so silent @Tierneevin1979?
Is it not now obvious to you that the “free speech” grift was a fraud?
For the same reason leftists are silent when conservatives are cancelled.
What “conservatives” have been cancelled?
The whole point of “conservatism” in the US is that you can’t be cancelled because you’re already deplorable, that’s your brand.
The right wing free speech grift was always a transparent fraud. Do you accept this?
That’s simply leftist nonsense. There have been dozens of cases where people have lost their jobs for expressing conservative opinions. The reason you don’t know this is the people you follow on Twitter are silent on these cases. Literally no point engaging with you as you cannot see past your own bias.
You didn’t name any.
You also refused to recognise the reality that the right wing free speech grift was always a transparent fraud, as I said on the pages from the start.
Now that’s genuinely not being able to see past your own bias. It’s also transparent deflection to avoid the hurt to your pride that admitting I was correct would entail.
I’ve long noticed that the thing that annoys at least half this forum the most is when I’m right about something, which is most of the time.