| The Lineker debacle 08:22 - Mar 12 with 840 views | Zx1988 |
My biggest concern here, over and above the censorship etc., is what this whole thing is meant to be distracting us from?
I can't imagine that even the BBC would get it so catastrophically wrong for so long, without there being some sort of edict to keep this as the top story in order to distract from other news.
Or, alternatively, the BBC is allowing itself to be completely and utterly played by Government, in bowing to pressure designed to keep the story running.
It's a perfect dead cat. [Post edited 12 Mar 2023 8:26]
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| The Lineker debacle on 08:36 - Mar 12 with 770 views | Oldsmoker |
Its the illegal "Illegal Immigration act" that their trying to stop being the talking point on the political shows on Sunday.
The Govt. knows it's illegal, they put it in the title of the act.
The UN also knows it's illegal as they've condemned it too. |  |
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| The Lineker debacle on 08:38 - Mar 12 with 769 views | Guthrum |
It's more likely just a steaming c0ck up.
All they need to have done is release a statement that Lineker was Tweeting as a private individual and his views do not reflect the official position of the BBC. Full stop. End of incident.
But instead someone decided to take it further. Which has merely served to highlight the unpopularity of the policy being commented on and to bring back up the controversy over Sharp , broadcasting impartiality and cuts to the service. |  |
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| The Lineker debacle on 19:25 - Mar 12 with 613 views | factual_blue |
| The Lineker debacle on 08:38 - Mar 12 by Guthrum |
It's more likely just a steaming c0ck up.
All they need to have done is release a statement that Lineker was Tweeting as a private individual and his views do not reflect the official position of the BBC. Full stop. End of incident.
But instead someone decided to take it further. Which has merely served to highlight the unpopularity of the policy being commented on and to bring back up the controversy over Sharp , broadcasting impartiality and cuts to the service. |
It's all because 30p lee anderson and the mail and expres steamed in.
They can't bear truth being spoken unto power.
And to think that a paper run by a pornographer, and another whose owner bravely shouted 'hurrah for the blackshirts' have so much influence.
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| The Lineker debacle on 19:30 - Mar 12 with 589 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
Alistair Campbell tweeted after the story first broke that he had it from a good source that it is to distract from Boris nominating Paul Dacre for a peerage for the second time, because, and this is not being talked about by any media outlet, the first nomination was still under criminal investigation.
That would also make sense of Boris nominating his Father, as another dead cat to distract us from Dacre. | | | |
| The Lineker debacle on 19:46 - Mar 12 with 562 views | You_Bloo_Right |
| The Lineker debacle on 19:30 - Mar 12 by ArnoldMoorhen |
Alistair Campbell tweeted after the story first broke that he had it from a good source that it is to distract from Boris nominating Paul Dacre for a peerage for the second time, because, and this is not being talked about by any media outlet, the first nomination was still under criminal investigation.
That would also make sense of Boris nominating his Father, as another dead cat to distract us from Dacre. |
Given the propsensity of Tory MPs to boast about things of which they should be ashamed I'm surprised they bother with a distraction strategy at all. |  |
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