Greg Dyke, former director general of the BBC and former president of the English football federation FA, considered this Saturday that “mistake” the broadcaster decided remove temporary presenter at exfubolista Gary Lineker for criticizing the government’s immigration plan on Twitter.
The BBC said on Friday it was removing him from the “Match of the day” football programme, which he has run since 1999, until they reach an agreement.about using their social networkss”, after several Conservative ministers and deputies condemned his comments last Tuesday.
The corporation claimed in a statement that its recent activity violates company networking guidelines adding that “he should not take sides in partisan issues or political controversies.”
Speaking on BBC Radio 4, Dyke lamented today that the perception could be the public broadcaster “has succumbed to pressure from the Executive”.
He is of the opinion that impartiality guidelines apply to news employees cannot be extended to all presenters of the institution and mentions as an example the businessman Alan Sugar, presenter of The apprentice, or the naturalist David Attenborough, who often expresses views.
The director of the BBC between 2000 and 2004 warned that the station, currently run by Tim Davie, had become undermine “his own credibility” by pushing Lineker away.
For his part, the former Barcelona player received the unity of many followers and other commentators of their program, which this Saturday will be broadcast without them and without interviews with the players after the games, because of the risk of them boycotting them.
On Tuesday, Lineker called “beyond terrible” the plan presented by the Minister of the Interior, Suella Braverman, of deny asylum to migrants arriving in the United Kingdom illegally in small boats and compared their rhetoric to the language of Nazi Germany.
He Labor Party, Like others in the opposition, he lamented the “cowardly decision” of the public channel, which it considers “an attack on freedom of expression” motivated by “political pressure”.
Source: La Verdad
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