The BBC is in Britain, so is Gary Lineker, and so is Ms Braverman when she isn't in Rwanda building concentration camps for people we deport from Britain. GL was talking about UK immigration policy. It seems pretty much all about Britain and Europe, so why are people here in your view being (excessively) euro-centric about the subject?
Gary Lineker vs. BBC
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claire.foxx
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I am talking about upthread where folk are discussing where they would like to live if they could live elsewhere, mostly europeen countries were brought up but the choice of better places to live is not restricted to Euroland. Its a big world.
paulfromcamden
Baffled
Yeah I agree. Though it's natural enough for folk to look across the water to places they've spent time.
I'd love to return to Japan for a long stretch sometime. Though it's a very conservative country in a lot of ways. I worked on an event with Terre Thaemlitz and was raving about how much I love it there - they just looked at me and said it's not the best place to live if you have a vagina. Fair point.
Anyways.. we don't know each other but glad you've escaped the UK and found somewhere happier.
Spraggons Den
pfm Member
Except Lineker is not a BBC employee.
m7rso
pfm Member
Australia equals mega, NZ is a little like going back in time but lovely, Canada I havent been so cannot comment
Cheese
Bitter lover
In what way does that matter ? GL has a contract with them.
Weekender
pfm Member
Generally speaking BBC employees are subject to stricter impartiality rules than freelancers. I don't know what's in Gary's contract obvs.
Spraggons Den
pfm Member
There was a good insight into the differences on R4s The Media Show programme when it first kicked off. The BBCs impartiality rules for social media only cover its employees working in news and current affairs.
Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
There is, of course, a counter-argument, which is that in seeking to control what BBC staff (and freelancers) put on social media, they will also have the effect of obscuring any political or other biases which those people might otherwise reveal.
Finnegan
I like a bit of a cavort
Except when it’s Andrew Neil.
Cheese
Bitter lover
and which would attest to very unprofessional bahaviour. There are quite a few professions where you are expected to keep your personal bias for yourself, journalism is one of them, especially so if you have climbed up the career ladder.
Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
Over the years I have gained the impression that the BBC's journalists have struggled with that. Whether Laura Kuenssberg's fawning over Johnson, or the issues around panel and audience selection for Question Time, a distinctly right-wing bias has crept into Auntie's output in recent years. Remember that picture of 'red' Corbyn and the Kremlin? The disproportionate airtime given to Farage and others of his ilk, is widely considered to be one reason why Brexit gained traction the way it did. So I'd agree with you that BBC journalists have behaved rather unprofessionally in recent times.
To remind you:
Minio
Kind of Sort of Not really...
Is like saying the Deepwater Horizon disaster was not BP's problem as it was contractors who were at fault.
awkwardbydesign
Officially Awesome
It was interesting how, in the US, BP became British Petroleum again, despite Americans owning a large proportion (most?) of the shares.
laughingboy
pfm Member
And who can forget James Landale's Hello magazine-style soft-soaping of the Camerons. It is a literal PR piece. Family man? Tick. Make salad together? Tick. Not too posh? Tick. Meet the wife? Tick. Best man for the job? Tick.... I'd agree with you that BBC journalists have behaved rather unprofessionally in recent times. To remind you:
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ff1d1l
pfm Member
Well he was...until johnson and truss, the best pm we'd ever had! Such vision, such prescience, such a work ethic...when will we see his like again?
Er, oh...
Spraggons Den
pfm Member
.He is at best a big standard presenter surrounded by equally poor quality