Simon LucyThere is still a hint in Davie's announcement that there were two sides, those supporting Lineker and those supporting impartiality.
That is a problem.
BBC Senior Management (I mean Gold level rather than Silver or Bronze) will be in Incident meetings and I guess Legal and some of the Silver management will be trying to explain that you cannot make absolute demands on Talent that the result will be that Talent walks and it likely won't only be highly paid Sports folk.
I imagine staff on both sides of production will also be meeting and that BECTU will have a ballot next week.
The BBC Director General needs to consider their position. George Entwhistle, who long term staffers might think would never have got into this pickle, went on the Today Programme and because he was poorly prepared decided himself to go.
Tim Davie doesn't seem to be made of the same stuff.
As Tim Davie is the Director General of the #BBC and the Editor in Chief could he explain his decision to ban one of the Isles Programmes from broadcast and hide it on iPlayer?
Supposedly to avoid right wing pressure groups.
So that's #BoycottMOTD then, and the BBC presses accelerate on its inability to manage its own image.
Who's fucking with impartiality now, BBC?
So this is a pretty shitty piece of editorial, one sided and as Lineker doesn't really have a right to reply, a misuse of the BBC's position as his contract owner.
Silence from the BBC would be much better if they can't be supportive. The alternative view is that the BBC editorially supports the Govt's attempt to subvert the Human Rights Treaty.
Impartiality does not include ignoring the truth or failing to challenge policies of hate.
That is the original BBC standard.