The BBC vs. Lineker: They think it’s all over ... it isn’t
The News Agents
Global
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🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Gary Lineker will be back on air this weekend.
And BBC Director General Tim Davie has apologised to viewers for the weekend's schedule disruptions.
They'd like this row to go away now.
Except it won't.
Where does it leave the BBC Chair and his Tory donations and friendships? Where does it leave the social media activities of other high profile talent? And what does impartiality mean - if it's being dictated by the government?
We speak to Armando Iannucci - who coined the phrase omnishambles a decade ago...
And we look at the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and ask if over the weekend we got close to another financial crash.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | Basically, on Friday, you just made a catastrophic mistake. |
| 0:15.3 | You didn't realise what was going to happen. |
| 0:17.3 | Now you just tried to put things better. |
| 0:19.1 | No, I think what we did was make a choice to take action and out of that we have got to a point |
| 0:27.2 | where we've agreed how to go forward and protect the BBC's impartiality. That's what we're |
| 0:31.2 | doing. On Friday, Tim Davy, and if you know Tim Davy, there is a certain swagger about him and self-confidence. |
| 0:39.7 | You didn't hear that today. But on Friday, they made a decision that they were going to pull Gary |
| 0:44.8 | Linneker from the studio and say you can't present match of the day. On Monday, today, they have said, |
| 0:51.1 | oh yes, you can go back to the studio, but nothing has really changed because |
| 0:55.3 | Gary Lineca has not apologised at all for the tweets that he put out. And indeed, one tweet today says |
| 1:02.5 | a final thought. However difficult the past few days have been, it simply doesn't compare |
| 1:07.6 | to having to flee your home from persecution or war to seek refuge in a land far away. |
| 1:15.3 | Repentant, Gary Lineca, not a bit of it. The BBC, it seems so. |
| 1:21.4 | So Gary Linneka will be back on air hosting the FA Cup quarter finals. |
| 1:25.6 | After a weekend which showed this extraordinary groundswell |
| 1:30.2 | of solidarity from his colleagues at the BBC and further afield from football managers, |
| 1:36.9 | from commentators, from anyone involved in the game who felt that they had to take Linneka's side |
| 1:42.9 | over the BBC when it came to supporting one of |
| 1:46.1 | their own over this question of the tweet and impartiality. And today you can use whatever |
| 1:51.8 | football analogy you want, whether it's the own goal or the back of the net. But don't make |
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