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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The BBC's Match of the Day will air without presenters or pundits on March 11 after Gary Lineker's suspension; his co-hosts refused to show up in solidarity — Decision taken after corporation takes its highest-paid presenter off air and his fellow broadcasters refuse to appear in solidarity
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@bbcbreaking: Gary Lineker to step back from presenting Match of the Day until agreement reached on social media use - BBC statement https://www.bbc.com/...
Jessie Gretener / CNN: Gary Lineker to step back from presenting ‘Match of the Day’ following Twitter controversy
Piers Morgan / @piersmorgan: WTF? How pathetically spineless.. I now demand the BBC suspend every presenter who has made public comment about news or current affairs - starting with Sir David Attenborough and Lord Sugar. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Richards / New Statesman: When will the BBC get over its fear of the right-wing press?
Zac Ntim / Deadline: BBC's ‘Match Of The Day’ To Air Without Presenters Or Pundits After Gary Lineker's Suspension
@mediaanalystoz: The BBC's suspended its top soccer host for tweeting about the UK's terrible new refugee policy All fellow hosts have pulled out in solidarity. Match of the Day will have no hosts for the first time ever ABC and BBC both captured by right-wing boards https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@itvnews: ‘In the circumstances, we do not feel it would be appropriate to take part in the programme’ Match Of The Day commentator Steve Wilson and colleagues have decided to step down from Saturday's broadcast of the show in support of Gary Lineker https://www.itv.com/...
Tim Burrowes / Unmade: BOTW: When punditry meets politics; Radio becomes the top news source; Sexist robots
Michael Pierse / @michaelpierse: The key point. The @BBC is repeatedly, continually biased. We know this here in Belfast, but it's plain now that the rot has set in at every level. If you support the Tories, this won't happen to you - that's the message. https://twitter.com/...
Richard Bacon / @richardpbacon: Entirely true. https://twitter.com/...
@simplyredhq: Freelance Gary Lineker made zero political comments on MOTD. That's his place of work. Meanwhile Fiona Bruce defends a Tory ‘one off’ Wife beater ON AIR! Double standards? Much.
Michael Hallihane / @michael_hal: Gary Lineker free speech martyr, standing up for the downtrodden vis a vis grubby populists who demonise and dehumanise refugees is how this is going to be presented by the blue tick brigade. It's utter bunkum. Lineker got too big for his boots and has been taken down a peg. https://twitter.com/...
Kieran Kelly / @kieranmlkelly: The BBC is a state television channel funded by the people by way of a tv tax / license. It's Gary vs the Government. People should not support the move to suspend him for voicing his personal opinion on his personal twitter page. https://twitter.com/...
Alexis Conran / @alexisconran: None of this would be happening if @GaryLineker had expressed support for “Stop The Boats” ... which would have also broken impartiality rules ... just let that sink in. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Hemming / @sarahhemm: This and the David Attenborough programme. This is shocking from the BBC. Craven. Can't they see how this looks? https://twitter.com/...
Mick Cleary / @mickclearytel: Can't disagree https://twitter.com/...
Danielle Blake / @abradacabla: Are the BBC going to chuck Richard Osman off the air now too? He has a show on the BBC and is now wading into ‘political controversy’, after all. (Good on him for this, which will likely highlight even more how full of shit the BBC is) https://twitter.com/...
Chris Cook / Financial Times: BBC forces Gary Lineker to ‘step back’ from presenting ‘Match of the Day’
Graeme Demianyk / HuffPost UK: Match Of The Day To Go Ahead Without Presenter And Pundits, BBC Confirms
Simon Wardley / @swardley: If Chelsea airs on MOTD tomorrow - I will no longer be a supporter, nor ever buy tickets or any form of memorabilia again - https://www.theguardian.com/ ... - have some integrity Chelsea, refuse the BBC ->
Tim Bale / @proftimbale: Oh FFS. Freedom of speech needs some serious protection in this country, it really does. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
John Brewin / @johnbrewin_: Like the Chart Show then. https://twitter.com/...
Vik / @iconicnumber7: Hahaha you may as well just watch the Sky Sports YouTube highlights. Zero production value to this. https://twitter.com/...
@memorialdevice: They can't get anyone to do it. Total humiliation. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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Niamh Lynch / Sky News:
The BBC says Gary Lineker will step back as a presenter, but a source says the BBC took him off the air because he won't apologize for his UK immigration tweets — Sky News reporter @niamhielynch — Gary Lineker is stepping back from his duties as Match of the Day presenter, the BBC has said in a statement.
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Ian Wright / @ianwright0: Everybody knows what Match of the Day means to me, but I've told the BBC I won't be doing it tomorrow. Solidarity.
Alan Shearer / @alanshearer: I have informed the BBC that I won't be appearing on MOTD tomorrow night.
Julian Borger / The Guardian: Political football: how the UK's culture wars engulfed the national game
Henry Mance / @henrymance: those BBC rules in full: - Attenborough can't broadcast a show about UK nature loss. - Lineker can't tweet criticising the government. - Alan Sugar *can* tweet criticising strikes. - The BBC chair *can* be a Tory donor who didn't disclose he facilitated a loan to Boris Johnson.
Sam Elliott / @sam_elliott_: You won't get to see Gary Lineker on Match of the Day on Saturday night But don't forget to tune into Lord Sugar on the Apprentice. 9pm BBC1 every Thursday! https://twitter.com/...
Alan Rusbridger / @arusbridger: Dear @BBC. In the interests of fairness could you please now ask @Lord_Sugar to step aside from @bbcapprentice . Otherwise people may wonder if you are truly impartial @GaryLineker https://twitter.com/...
Telegraph: BBC pundits boycott Match of the Day after Gary Lineker told to step back over migrant Nazi jibe
Barney Ronay / The Guardian: Why there are no winners after the BBC's two-footed tackle on Gary Lineker
Ros Atkins / @bbcrosatkins: The BBC says that Gary Lineker is to step back from #MOTD til he & the BBC reach agreement on his social media use. In 2021, Gary Lineker talked to The Media Show about twitter & how Tim Davie had never called to say 'you can't tweet about that'. https://www.bbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Edwin Hayward / @edwinhayward: Remember, Robert Peston used to be on the BBC. He'd have risked his job there for snark like this... (It's illustrative of how liberating it is not to have the stifling millstone of BBC guidance holding you down.) https://twitter.com/...
@skynews: Alastair Campbell defends Gary Lineker after being removed from his Match of the Day duties on the BBC. Campbell, whose podcast series ‘The Rest is Politics’ is produced by Lineker's company Goalhanger Podcasts, defends the TV presenter Latest: https://news.sky.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Micah Richards / @micahrichards: I was not due to be working on MOTD tomorrow, but if I was, I would find myself taking the same decision that @IanWright0 & @alanshearer have.
Danny Cipriani / @dannycipriani87: Love this from @IanWright0 & @alanshearer - staying true to themselves 🙏🏽❤️ https://twitter.com/...
Nicola Sturgeon / @nicolasturgeon: As a strong supporter of public service broadcasting, I want to be able to defend the BBC. But the decision to take @GaryLineker off air is indefensible. It is undermining free speech in the face of political pressure - & it does always seem to be rightwing pressure it caves to
Rachel Clarke / @doctor_oxford: Appalled by how cravenly the BBC is caving to political pressure. Thank you @GaryLineker for standing up for decency, free speech & all those who are dehumanised & demonised by a grubby strand of UK populism. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Joe Lucia / Awful Announcing: Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, Ian Wright will not appear on BBC's ‘Match of the Day’ this weekend
William Turvill / New Statesman: Sack him or back him, the BBC cannot win the row over Gary Lineker
@skynews: 'They've caved in to a noisy, right-wing cabal.' @Anna_Soubry says the BBC has made a “seriously concerning” decision regarding Gary Lineker, adding that as a freelance sports presenter he is entitled to express his views. Latest: https://news.sky.com/... 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube https://twitter.com/...
Otto English / @otto_english: So Lineker steps down, but BBC chairperson Richard Sharp, who helped facilitate an £800,000 loan for Boris Johnson and who's personally donated £400,000 to the Conservative party stays in his job ... got it... impartiality
Scott Bryan / @scottygb: BBC statement on Gary Lineker. https://twitter.com/...
Zarah Sultana MP / @zarahsultana: There's nothing more beautiful than solidarity. Huge respect @IanWright0 & @GaryLineker 🤍 https://twitter.com/...
John McDonnell MP / @johnmcdonnellmp: The Tories know that the language used by Government ministers & Tory MPs will stoke up fear & division in our community. They have designed it to. It's their electoral strategy. Let's all stand up for @GaryLineker for calling it out & for @IanWright0 for standing with him. https://twitter.com/...
Robert Peston / @peston: Labour: “The BBC's cowardly decision to take Gary Lineker off air is an assault on free speech in the face of political pressure. Tory politicians lobbying to get people sacked for disagreeing with Government policies should be laughed at, not pandered to. BBC should rethink.”
Jeremy Clarkson / @jeremyclarkson: @IanWright0 Good on you mate
Tim Walker / @thattimwalker: Retweet please if Wrighty speaks for you, wherever you are. https://twitter.com/...
Beth Rigby / @bethrigby: Alan Shearer now joins Ian Wright and says he won't appear on MoTD either after Gary Lineker taken off air https://twitter.com/...
Tammy Hughes / London Evening Standard: Gary Lineker to step back from presenting Match of the Day, BBC announces
Jess Phillips MP / @jessphillips: This is making me like football. https://twitter.com/...
@gunnerblog: Hope all the pundits do the right thing and refuse to turn up for @BBCMOTD until @GaryLineker is reinstated.
Gary Younge / @garyyounge: This is what a culture war looks like. Where are those freedom of speech advocates when you need them? https://twitter.com/...
Robert Peston / @peston: This is not going well for the BBC https://twitter.com/...
@skynews: SNP MP John Nicholson says he thinks “real concerns” have been raised about “political influence by the Tories at the top of the BBC” following Gary Lineker's ‘suspension’ from Match of the Day. Latest: https://news.sky.com/... 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube https://twitter.com/...
Rob Harris / @robharris: Source close to Gary Lineker says he has not agreed to step back from MOTD - claiming the BBC has taken him off air. It's understood Lineker is unwilling to apologise for his tweets and admit he should not have posted them. The BBC has been approached for comment. https://twitter.com/...
Jake Kanter / Deadline: Gary Lineker Told To Step Back From BBC's ‘Match Of The Day’ After Tweets Slamming UK Government
Femi / @femi_sorry: The same BBC that refused to apologise for saying the N-word in a news report, thinks it has the right to censor or even fire Gary Lineker for his political views, in the name of political sensitivity. Give me a break!!! #ImWithGary https://twitter.com/...
Philip Collins / @philipjcollins1: I don't agree with Alan Sugar's attack on Mick Lynch. And I don't agree with Gary Lineker that the language now is redolent of the 1930s. But I cannot for the life of me work out why one is fine and the other is not. They are, of course, both fine.
Liam Thorp / @liamthorpecho: Gary Lineker forced to withdraw from his job because of claims of impartiality over his views on the government's asylum system BBC chairman Richard Sharp has continued in his job after his role in helping to land Boris Johnson an £800,000 loan
Joel Morris / @gralefrit: The BBC has to appease the government. Appeasement is the only way to stop people comparing the situation to 1930s Germany.
@ohgodwhatnowpod: Another victory for the Free Speech But Not For People I Don't Like Movement. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Motty / @jaymotty: Truly pathetic from the BBC to take Gary Lineker off MOTD. Where was the energy for Clarkson when he was dropping N-Bombs or Alan ‘call me Lord’ Sugar when he was spouting racist shite on here about the Senegal national team?? They do as the Tories tell them
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Ridiculous. Gary Lineker did nothing wrong. A BBC chaired by a guy who facilitated a loan for Boris Johnson wants us to believe that Lineker is undermining its impartiality. Ridiculous. https://www.bbc.com/...
Dominic Dyer / @domdyer70: Good man Ian https://twitter.com/...
Matt Hughes / @matthughesdm: BBC desperately scrambling to secure a new presenter for Match of the Day, with Alex Scott and Mark Chapman both ruling themselves out following withdrawal of Alan Shearer and Ian Wright as pundits.
Alex Stewart / @afhstewart: I adore Ian Wright, not least for a genuine and wholehearted support of women's football. Zero surprise he's taken a stand here, as he has on other social issues
Jo Maugham / @jolyonmaugham: Barely a week goes by without a @BBCr4today presenter sneering at trans people. Hard to avoid the conclusion that what Gary Lineker has actually done wrong is punch in the wrong direction - he's punched up. https://www.bbc.com/...
Rob Harris / @robharris: Would there be unease of any presenter to step in to replace Gary Lineker on MOTD on Saturday given the intense focus on this? https://twitter.com/...
@svcarbaholic: Alan Sugar never got taken off air for this btw. BBC still happily letting The Apprentice run https://twitter.com/...
Ryder / @ryder56004614: #IStandWithGary This is a blatant shot across the bow. A clear message to any reporter, media personality or person with a voice. The message is “if you speak out against the government, we'll get you”. https://www.bbc.com/...
Krishnan Guru-Murthy / @krishgm: Makes it very hard for any pundit to appear. And what kind of presenter will want to do that job tomorrow? Is it the end of MOTD as we know it? https://twitter.com/...
@janaagefjortoft: So BBC, a broadcaster that have shown courage around the world for ages....getting weak and afraid of the British government because an intelligent man like @GaryLineker has an opinion on other things than 442 and VAR..... #embarrassing https://twitter.com/...
Tom Sutcliffe / @tds153: “So, how do you feel your first day in the BBC Press Office went then?” https://twitter.com/...
Gary Neville / @gnev2: When you take on the Tories and the system! Awful people who we need gone. Off for a 🍷 https://twitter.com/...
@skynews: ‘This is the consequence of creeping right-wing authoritarianism in this country’ Former Downing Street Director of Communications Alastair Campbell criticises the BBC for their handling of the Gary Lineker dispute Full story: https://news.sky.com/... 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube https://twitter.com/...
Tim Farron / @timfarron: And I will be stepping back from watching the programme until the @bbc grows a backbone. Still, I'm sure we can count on the Free Speech Union to stand up against this hysterical act of cancellation... https://twitter.com/...
Dr Rachel Mann / @revrachelmann: Really? Anyone else afeared for our national broadcaster? https://twitter.com/...
Adam Crafton / @adamcrafton_: Just like the Rashford episode, the media and political establishment will soon discover its not actually very *popular* to try and take on the country's most popular sporting figures when they know how to use social media effectively
Amy Lawrence / @amylawrence71: No Lineker. No Wrighty. Let's all switch off tomorrow. Find other ways of catching up on our teams. Zero MOTD viewers sends out a decent message against this disturbing surpression.
Catherine Taylor / @katyataylor: Nor should it. Sugar can tweet what he likes. Why can't Lineker? https://twitter.com/...
Nicola Thorp / Metro.co.uk: Why did Gary Lineker's comments ruffle more feathers than the actual small boats policy?
Lucy Powell MP / @lucympowell: This feels like an over reaction brought on by a right-wing media frenzy obsessed with undermining the BBC. I note the same cries of impartiality were totally absent when the BBC Chair failed to disclose aspects of his close friendship with the then PM https://www.bbc.com/...
Carol Vorderman / @carolvorders: Now THAT is an honest man @IanWright0 ❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 https://twitter.com/...
@eurofootcom: 🚨🗣️ Ian Wright: “Everybody knows what Match of the Day means to me, but I've told the BBC I won't be doing it tomorrow. Solidarity.” ICYMI: Gary Lineker has been taken off air by BBC after recent tweets. Various sources say he has not even agreed to step back. https://twitter.com/...
Mollie Goodfellow / @hansmollman: Matt Hancock in an Uber to the MOTD studios right now to see if they need a hand
Adam Boulton / @adamboultontabb: To sideline @GaryLineker and David Attenborough on the same day might be considered craven or foolhardy @BBC
John Sweeney / @johnsweeneyroar: Shame on the BBC. I stand with @GaryLineker. https://www.bbc.com/...
Jack / @thejdtucker: “So Jermaine, did you boycott MotD too?” Jermaine Jenas: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Garry / @tomjgarry: It's been another big day in the job for the BBC's 100% impartial director-general Tim Davie, the former deputy chairman of the Hammersmith & Fulham Conservative party and a former Conservative candidate in local elections
@robmanuel: I don't work for the BBC so I don't have anything to lose by saying this callous government is the worst of my lifetime and I hope whoever follows them is brave enough to reverse their foul policies and not just slightly soften them around the edges and be a bit more competent.
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Affording people basic human rights is a ‘political issue’ ?....For all those UK journos who have wagged their fingers about ‘Britain is nothing like America’ in terms of weaponized culture wars, I think you will find that it is pretty much the same
Christian Christensen / @chrchristensen: What a gutless, cowardly decision by the BBC. I would ask when free speech and anti-cancel culture warriors will step up...but that's pointless as we all know that they won't. https://www.bbc.com/...
Claudia Webbe MP / @claudiawebbe: Gary Lineker is our Leicester Legend. I grew up with him. He's been using his own social media to challenge the Tory government's vile use of language on refugees The BBC removed him from MOTD. We defeat racism with anti-racism, the authoritarian and elite don't understand this
Ian Hyland / @hylandian: I think we should be told exactly who in the government has leaned on who at the BBC to suspend Gary Lineker.
@johnobrennan2: The Conservatives have driven Britain to such an extreme point that footballers have become the conscience of the nation. More power to them. https://twitter.com/...
Lucy Pritty / @lucypritty1: I hope Mark Chapman, Alex Scott, and Gabby Logan all refuse to step in and present motd.. they all need to show solidarity at times like this when the BBC has plunged itself into another mess
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Could someone please point me to the ‘sides’ the BBC is referring to here? From the weak official responses I have read from Labour their main objection to Tory immigration policy is that it doesn't work well enough.... https://twitter.com/...
Lewis Iwu / @lewisiwu: This is just dark I'm afraid. The state of discourse in our country when this has been the dominant story connected with the migration policy. Solitary with @GaryLineker - we really do need to assess why the wrong people are held accountable for terrible policy and behaviour. https://twitter.com/...
Charles Arthur / @charlesarthur: Humphrys wrote very long columns in the Daily Mail, and they weren't about crisp flavours either. https://twitter.com/...
Piers Morgan / @piersmorgan: REMINDER: BBC management told @GaryLineker to make political statements about Qatar's human rights record at the start of the recent World Cup.
@skynews: BREAKING: The BBC says Match of the Day tomorrow night “will focus on match action without studio presentation or punditry” Full story: https://news.sky.com/... 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Maguire / @kevin_maguire: Regrettably a weakling BBC is the UK Conservative Government's broadcasting arm With a Tory donor chair who helped organise Johnson's £800,000 deal and a D-G who stood as a Con council cand BBC hacks were chief spin doctors for PMs Cameron, May & Johnson https://www.bbc.com/...
Sean / @seandolfc: Match Of The Day is already threatened by Sky's youtube/tv guide highlights of PL games and now they want to get rid of Lineker who, despite a lot of people hating his tweets, is about the only thing going for it. Enjoy Jenas
Samuel Carvalho / @samcarvalho: Disappointed, but hardly surprising with the BBC. The vast majority of the UK support you @GaryLineker https://twitter.com/...
Krishnan Guru-Murthy / @krishgm: This could be big if others do the same. https://twitter.com/...
Gary Neville / @gnev2: I had no doubt Ian Wright would do that! Who the hell is going to go on now ! https://twitter.com/...
Sadiq Khan / @sadiqkhan: Wrighty speaking for a lot of Londoners - me included. https://twitter.com/...
Damian Counsell / @damcou: You can be certain that, over the next few weeks, none of those on Twitter supporting Lineker will be deploying the xkcd “And They're Showing You The Door” cartoon that they are normally so fond of. https://twitter.com/...
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter: BBC Pulls Gary Lineker as TV Soccer Host Over U.K. Refugee Policy Criticism
Ash Sarkar / @ayocaesar: When Alan Sugar takes to Twitter to slag off Mick Lynch, that's fine. But when Gary Lineker tweets critically of government policy, that's a breach of impartiality. Are we all clear on the rules? https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Brennan MP / @kevinbrennanmp: How utterly pathetic from the BBC https://twitter.com/...
Beth Rigby / @bethrigby: Gary Lineker stepping back MOTD presenter duties. Won't present MOTD until agreement reached on social media use. BBC: “BBC's been in extensive discussions w Gary & his team in recent days. We've said we consider his recent social media activity to be a breach of our guidelines” https://twitter.com/...
Tom Hamilton / @thhamilton: “We wanted them to *not* do anything to him so that we could keep on saying how disgraceful it was that the BBC hadn't acted, this has wrecked the line” https://twitter.com/...
@skynews: “I'm 100% behind him.” @OfficialBarnesy says Gary Lineker has “no reason to apologise” over a tweet in which he compared the language used to launch a new government asylum policy with 1930s Germany. Latest: https://news.sky.com/... 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602 and Freeview 233 https://twitter.com/...
James Mitchinson / @jaymitchinson: If the right wing racist rags that for too long have polluted the public discourse in this country win, then the BBC is dead and I don't know who we are as a nation anymore. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/ ...
@abzmcfc___: 'Welcome to Match of the Day and i'm your host, Jermaine Jenas...' https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Omid Djalili / @omid9: Men like Shearer and Wright. Game, set and match. ⬇️ https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dave Lee / @daveleeft: BBC can't win here. If it has this interview with Campbell and *doesn't* mention his links to Lineker, Twitter would absolutely eat it up (as it has done in the past with similar ties when undisclosed). https://twitter.com/...
Graeme Demianyk / HuffPost UK: Gary Lineker To ‘Step Back’ From Match Of The Day After Immigration Tweets
Martyn Ziegler / @martynziegler: There's no way MOTD can take place tomorrow night - who is going to take that toxic hot-seat. ?
Emily M / @maitlis: I'm not sure when they suggested to Gary Lineker he step back from #MOTD the bbc realised it might be starting a much much bigger battle. @IanWright0 refusing to present on Saturday. In the name of solidarity
Rob Harris / @robharris: Ian Wright's announcement reflects what I have been hearing - a reluctance from others to be on MOTD after Lineker was taken off air by the BBC https://twitter.com/...
@twlldun: Not to be that guy but was Andrew Neill stopped from presenting his *politics* show because of his tweets? Honestly. I think Lineker's statement wasn't great but have some fucking consistency you weak ass fools.
Robert Peston / @peston: A senior TV executive tells me his money is on Jacob Rees-Mogg presenting MOTD tomorrow https://twitter.com/...
Dan Walker / @mrdanwalker: I used to sit in for @GaryLineker on MOTD... not sure I'd fancy it this weekend 😳 What a mess!
Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu / @sholamos1: It is OBSCENE that Gary Lineker has to ‘step back’ when Richard Sharp who facilitated a loan for Boris Johnson in time to be appointed BBC chair keeps his position BBC ALWAYS proves Tory Govt is its paymaster. The corruption, collusion & conflict of interest - profoundly OBSCENE https://twitter.com/...
Reece Dinsdale / @reece_dinsdale: He can comment on human rights in Qatar whilst presenting the BBC's coverage of the World Cup but he can't comment on the state of his OWN country's government for himself. How does that balance up, then? https://www.bbc.com/...
Peter Butler / @peterbutler@mas.to: I know he's in the news for other reasons today ☹️ but never forget that Gary Lineker was absolutely magic in front of the goal. — https://www.youtube.com/... #GaryLineker #Football #England
@mattcoyney: Gary Lineker will stroll over to Sky and earn four times his current salary.. and continue to tweet whatever the hell he wants. The BBC, on the other hand, will not just lose a talent, but discourage anybody with a social conscience from ever working for them.
Helena Horton / The Guardian:
Sources: the BBC won't air an episode on the loss of nature from David Attenborough's UK wildlife series for fear of rightwing anger; the BBC denies the claim — Exclusive: Decision to make episode about natural destruction available only on iPlayer angers programme-makers
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Sharon Knolle / The Wrap: BBC Slammed for Pulling Episode of David Attenborough Nature Series for Fear of Conservative Backlash (Report)
Matt Cooper / @cooper_m: What a day Britain is having. Strike that. What a decade it has had and is having. https://twitter.com/...
@bbcpress: @guardian Our press release from August 2022 makes it clear that Wild Isles will be a five part series ⬇️ https://www.bbc.com/...
Armando Iannucci / @aiannucci: There's an old saying in British broadcasting: 'Cross Attenborough, and he'll break your toes.' Expect fireworks. https://twitter.com/...
Liam Robertson / @doctor_cupcakes: It's plain to see whose side the BBC is on. https://twitter.com/...
Jo Maugham / @jolyonmaugham: Extraordinary story of how the (honest Guv, independent) BBC won't tell the truth about climate change because it fears the right might find the truth unpalatable. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Josh Shepperd / @joshshepperd: The BBC censoring David Attenborough is like PBS censoring Elmo. It can only be imagined at the precipice of a total institutional collapse. https://twitter.com/...
Scarlett / @scarlettowest: This isn't only ridiculous, but terrifying. Attenborough's documentaries don't even invoke the full context of just how terrible our climate situation is or why we've reached this point. If even ‘palatable’ climate info is being censored, how will we employ climate education? https://twitter.com/...
Dr Simon Ubsdell / @simonubsdell: Oh for heaven's sake. Good thing the Queen is dead or they'd have cancelled her too by now. https://twitter.com/...
Colin Millar / @millar_colin: This is jaw-dropping. Facts not being aired because... they may upset feelings. On the flip side, it proves “cancel culture” actually does exist. https://twitter.com/...
Esme Ward / @ward_esme: The more I think about this, the angrier I get. Channelling my frustrations into making next years WILD exhibition @McrMuseum better than ever.. https://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Healthy society we all live in https://twitter.com/...
Prof Paul Bernal / @paulbernaluk: Cancelling Attenborough and Lineker on the same day. Hang your heads in shame, BBC, hang your heads in shame.
Alastair Campbell / @campbellclaret: Meanwhile the combination of right wing bullshittery and BBC management cowardice and politicisation continues ... BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of rightwing backlash | BBC | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Caroline Lucas / @carolinelucas: 🚨Culture Wars Latest: Censoring UK's most trusted voice on nature is shocking dereliction of BBC's duty to public service broadcasting. It CANNOT allow truth on nature depletion to be victim in cynical culture wars stoked by populist Ministers #WildIsles https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Sarah Champion / @sarahchampionmp: What?!? Are we now in a dictatorship with the BBC a Tory enforcer 😳 https://twitter.com/...
Alan White / @aljwhite: The good news for the govt is they've probably got small boats off the front of tomorrow's front pages. The bad news is they've upset two very popular footballers and David Attenborough in the last 3 hours.
Stephanie / @stephknee: Every area of public debate is now fatally poisoned by the idea it's worse, and ruder, to tell someone what they're doing is wrong, than it is for them to do it https://twitter.com/...
Joanne Harris / @joannechocolat: THIS is censorship. Not editing, not responding to public demand, not changing outdated vocabulary. This. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Shenton / @shentonstage: It feels suddenly like the BBC is just imploding. What with @GaryLineker and now this, pandering to right wing nuts doesn't seem to be the way forward, surely? https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Cole / @melissacole: Ok, c'mon people, this is a LITERAL national treasure. https://twitter.com/...
Liam Thorp / @liamthorpecho: So the BBC is now effectively censoring the voice of nature David Attenborough on factual and vital content based on the potential reaction from Tory MPs and right wing newspapers These are truly dark days https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Simon Smith / @smithsmm: When you are making David Attenborough to be the enemy then you are definitely on the wrong side. https://twitter.com/...
Count Binface / @countbinface: So they DID air an arse-licking tribute to Jimmy Savile despite knowing he was a predatory sex offender... And now they WON'T air a documentary in which Sir David Attenborough speaks actual facts about the destruction of nature? Go home, BBC. You're drunker than Phil Mitchell. https://twitter.com/...
@bbcpress: This is totally inaccurate, there is no ‘6th episode’. Wild Isles is - and always was - a 5 part series. We acquired a separate film for iPlayer from the RSPB, WWF and Silverback Films about people working to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the British Isles. @guardian https://twitter.com/...
@asifkapadia: The BBC is no longer our beloved, respected around the world public broadcaster, it is now run by Tory PR machine & is a full on Tory state broadcaster. If they can take down Attenborough, go after Lineker, imagine what they can do to silence people who have no power or influence https://twitter.com/...
Pip / @philippawarr: Tell me again how Gary Lineker is the one risking the public's trust in a broadcaster... https://twitter.com/...
George Monbiot / @georgemonbiot: The BBC's shocking cowardice on this issue is itself highly political. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Daniel Austin / @_dan_austin: The BBC is now at the stage where it will refuse to broadcast factual scientific information and force out its own talent for showing empathy to vulnerable people. All because they're petrified of backwards, hate-filled cranks kicking off. Cowardly and very dangerous. https://twitter.com/...
Alistair Coleman / @alistaircoleman: I *know* my employers are having A Bit Of A Day today, but you can stand down on the Attenborough outrage. https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: Roku held about 26% of its $1.9B in cash and equivalents at the failed Silicon Valley Bank; remaining cash is sufficient for at least 12 months — About one-fourth of Roku's cash and equivalents — nearly half a billion dollars — has been held in Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) …
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Erin Griffith / New York Times: Silicon Valley Bank's Collapse Causes Start-Up Chaos
Jessica Bursztynsky / Fast Company: Here's how bad the damage is for Silicon Valley Bank's public clients
Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Roku says 26% of its cash reserves are stuck in Silicon Valley Bank
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap: Roku Had $487 Million in Failed Silicon Valley Bank
Lakshmi Varanasi / Insider: Roku discloses it has $487 million in deposits at failed Silicon Valley Bank. That's 26% of its cash.
Ramishah Maruf / CNN: Roku held nearly $500 million at Silicon Valley Bank and does not know if it will recover the funds
Steve Yelvington / @steve@s.yelvington.com: Ouch. — Roku: Failed SVB Held $487 Million of Its Cash, or 26% - Variety https://variety.com/...
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: Roku said it “does not know to what extent the company will be able to recover its cash on deposit at SVB” but says it has enough cash on hand & from expected cash flow to cover costs for 12+ months https://variety.com/... via @variety
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: Group Black wants to acquire Paramount's BET and VH1, backed by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners; Tyler Perry and Byron Allen are also looking — Black Entertainment Television made the first Black billionaire in the United States. Will a Black executive buy it back?
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Sharon Knolle / The Wrap: Group Black Emerges as 3rd Potential Buyer for BET After Tyler Perry and Byron Allen
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony@journa.host: Group Black, which aims to invest in and grow Black-owned media firms, has submitted a bid to acquire embattled Vice Media for around $400 million — https://www.wsj.com/...
Jessica Toonkel / @jtoonkel: A few tidbits in this scoop w/@Ajsaeedy @laurenthomas: -Antenna Group is months late on $30 mln payment to Vice —bids have come in for all or pieces of Vice Group Black has submitted a bid to acquire embattled Vice for around $400 million https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: $400mm bid for a company that reportedly brought in $600mm last year. Which is.. in line with other digital media cos in 2023. https://twitter.com/...
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
A look at Jimmy Finkelstein's The Messenger, debuting in May 2023 with $50M in funding and 175+ reporters covering politics, business, entertainment, and sports — The company, which will begin operating in May, plans to have around 550 journalists covering entertainment, politics and sports within a year.
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Ben Mullin / @benmullin: Jimmy Finkelstein talked to me about The Messenger, a new newsroom that he hopes will be as big as the LA Times by the end of next year: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ned Berke / @nberke: I was just saying that the world needs more national coverage of politics, business and entertainment from the perspective of NY, LA and DC. Cutting edge innovation. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Stephen Fowler / @stphnfwlr: imagine what would happen if a 74 year old publishing executive decided to use $50M in investor money to boost local newsrooms/nonprofits that serve meaningful purposes+audiences instead of yet another DC/NY/LA-based national outlet with zero new ideas! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andrew Ba Tran / @abtran: Hollywood should remake ‘The Producers’ but make it about spinning up news startups instead of Broadway musicals https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer: why do these people fund these “we're going to go HUGE” media strategies? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Doree Shafrir / @doree: alt hed: Cool! Another Group of Middle-Aged White Guys Are Gonna Transform News https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joe Concha / @joeconchatv: “The company, which will begin operating in May, plans to have around 550 journalists covering entertainment, politics and sports within a year.” The Messenger is owned by Jimmy Finkelstein, who sold The Hill to Nexstar last year for $130 million. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: The Hill has always been shit & now The Times swallows the PR of its sequel because it preaches bothsideism—tarted up as “polyperspectivity”—to The Times' choir. Gag me. The Messenger, a Media Start-Up, Aims to Build a Newsroom Fast https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tara McGowan / @taraemcg: Do we think that these individuals 👇don't have biases or incentives that will inform what their new $50MM ""polyperspectivity" media enterprise covers, and how? 🧐🧐🧐 https://www.nytimes.com/...
@pressgazette: Jimmy Finkelstein's new media venture The Messenger aims to have 550 staff within a year after it begins with at least 175 in May in New York, Washington and LA. It has raised $50m in investor funds and aims to generate $100m+ in revenue next year https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hamed Aleaziz / @haleaziz: “Mr. Finkelstein cited what he described as CNN's limited coverage of the southern U.S. border and Fox News's downplaying of the Capitol riot as the type of coverage he would like to address.” I've seen a lot of border coverage from CNN. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Shane Goldmacher / @shanegoldmacher: “Polyperspectivity” is a word in a quote in this story https://www.nytimes.com/...
Patrick Dillon / @mpdillon: Every week on here I read two things: 1) some hot new media start-up is going to change everything, usually by covering “politics, entertainment and business” 2) some hot new media start-up of a few years ago decimated its staff and is on it way to being sold for parts https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal:
A look at upcoming changes for failing RSNs; sources: MLB envisions a hybrid national and local programming venture with TV and streaming on its own platform — Once thriving, the regional-sports TV industry is suffering as cable bundles unravel — Two of the largest regional sports broadcasters …
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Joe Flint / @jbflint: The regional sports network biz is in turmoil due to cord-cutting, expensive rights fees and a rocky transition to streaming. Our dive w @bysarahkrouse @lindseyadler @gladstonea. https://www.wsj.com/...
Lindsey Adler / @lindseyadler: Rob Manfred: “I think we can get into a mode where we are better able to say to fans: You can watch baseball on whatever platform you want to watch it.” via a big RSN story with @JBFlint, @bysarahkrouse @gladstonea : https://www.wsj.com/...
Michael McCarthy / Front Office Sports: As Season Looms, How Will MLB Handle TV Uncertainty?
Kevin O'Keefe / @kevinokeefe: The financial unraveling of the once-thriving regional-sports TV industry could hasten a shift to a direct-to-consumer model for live sports. May benefit fans while hurting teams and players. https://www.wsj.com/... from @WSJ https://twitter.com/...
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Phillip Bupp / Awful Announcing:
Report: Sinclair's Diamond Sports Group is within a week of filing for bankruptcy and has not paid the Arizona Diamondbacks by exercising a grace payment clause — It's expected that Diamond Sports Group is within one week from filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: Diamond Sports Withholds Diamondbacks Payment in Bid to Bolster Streaming Service
John Ourand / @ourand_sbj: Diamond bankruptcy 1. What happens next week? 2. What teams could miss rights payments? 3. Will D-backs games be on TV this season? 4. What happens to Bally Sports Arizona if it does not carry D-backs games? 5. How does Diamond stand with its distributors? https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/ ...
Reuters:
CEO Bob Iger says Disney is looking to reduce the content the company produces for its own platforms and may resume making films and TV shows for its rivals — Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) Chief Executive Bob Iger Thursday said the studio may resume making films and television shows for its rivals …
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Todd Spangler / Variety: Bob Iger Is ‘Bullish’ on Disney+ but ‘We Were Off’ on Pricing Strategy and Needed to Rationalize Costs
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Between Q3 2018 and Q3 2022, Sunday circulation figures at Gannett's largest local newspapers fell 66.8% versus a 26.5% average across comparable metro dailies — Gannett, America's largest newspaper chain, should wake up each morning thankful for the existence of No. 2 Alden Global Capital.
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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: Gannett is wrecking its papers, but USA Today's circulation is not down 93%
Karen DaltonBeninato / @kbeninato: Good summary of the scale of local news destruction in Gannett markets. I came up through community newspapers, and hate watching them disappear one by one. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Will Bunch / @will_bunch: I thought I was on top of what's happening in journalism but this story is utterly shocking https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: New by me —> Alden Global Capital makes for a better Hollywood villain — but the scale of local news destruction in Gannett's markets is simply astonishing. Staff size is down 59% in 4 years. At its biggest local papers, paid readers are down 77%. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
John Archibald / @johnarchibald: Hell of a piece here. Anybody in the business should read it. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor@mastodon.social: What the financial manipulators who control “Gannett” — an rapidly dissolving news company — have done is tragic, and infuriating. Josh Benton at Nieman Lab has looked hard at the numbers: https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Ryan Van Velzer / @ryanvanvelzer: Shit man, this is miserable news. Whatever you think of Gannett, the @courierjournal won a Pulitzer for Bevin's pardons, was a finalist for Breonna Taylor coverage and had its stories cited in the DOJ investigation into LMPD. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: “Gannett has eliminated 59% of its jobs in four years. It's as if, instead of merging America's two largest newspaper chains, one of them was simply wiped off the face of the earth.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@niemanlab@mastodon.social: “It's as if, instead of merging America's two largest newspaper chains, one of them was simply wiped off the face of the earth.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jim Brunner / @jim_brunner: GANNETT: burning its papers to the ground. The scale of local news destruction in Gannett's markets is astonishing https://www.niemanlab.org/... via @NiemanLab
Sam Mintz / @samjmintz: Incredible tally of the scale of Gannett's decimation of local newspapers in these numbers https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kristine Phillips / @bykristinep: At first glance, I thought this is a burning sinking ship. Either way, a fitting image. https://twitter.com/...
Gage / @gagemiskimen: The Des Moines Register Sunday circulation numbers in here. Wow. Q3 2018: 129,462 Q3 2022: 39,773 That's a decline of 69.3%. https://twitter.com/...
Steven Waldman / @stevenwaldman: “The Advertiser [Lafeyette, LA] reported having 17 newsroom employees in 2020. But a combination of cuts, buyouts & escapes left it with exactly one local news reporter by January.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
T. Greg Doucette / @greg_doucette: ::low whistle:: https://twitter.com/...
Rob Pegoraro / @robpegoraro: 1) I guess that helps explain why Gannett management would reach the “look for change under the sofa cushions” stage of dropping a bunch of freelance columns. 2) Gannett's not my problem anymore, but I still feel sorry for the increasingly overworked journalists left there. https://twitter.com/...
@nppa: Required reading. Many of our members and colleagues feel this firsthand. Those on powerful positions feel it in other ways: they aren't held accountable. The scale of local news destruction in Gannett's markets is astonishing | Nieman Journalism Lab https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Denver Pratt / @denverpratt: Local news is so critically important & its decimation by hedge fund/private equity firms is nothing short of a travesty. I work for a local paper owned by a hedge fund. As @WaNewsGuild & others have said, that model is bad for local journalism & communities. Please read this. https://twitter.com/...
Damon Kiesow / @dkiesow@social.kiesow.net: Just amazingly bad numbers and bad news: https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu@journa.host: As @jbenton points out, the circulation of Gannett's USA Today is down by a lot. But I don't think it's down by as much as Josh suggests. https://www.niemanlab.org/... (1/x)
Darren Major / CBC News:
Google executives defend the company's actions in front of a Canadian Parliament committee after Google blocked news content in a test that will end next week — Google says it will stop blocking users' access to news on its site next week — Executives from Google Canada …
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Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Precisely, G is blowing smoke about changing web. “This heavy-handed unilateral behaviour underscores that there is a significant power imbalance between publishers and platforms that needs to be addressed.” - @NewsMediaCanada CEO Paul Deegan. /7 https://www.cbc.ca/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Bam. Now under oath and under significant pressure and demand of the Chair, Google employee admits that Google's CEO Sundar Pichai and Chief Legal Officer Kent Walker were aware of the blocking of news to Canadians while Parliament considers legislation impacting Google. /5 https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: This is a good but scorching line of questioning of Google. If there was a Canadian news story about your being sued by the US Justice Department, about car seat safety, about name the issue, would it be blocked by Google? /2 https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Here is a link to my testimony and background on the legislation. But today isn't about Google's views of the bill that impacts their monopoly and trillion dollar market cap. Today is about Google's abusing its market power and threatening the representatives of Canada. /4 https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: The reason this matters: Google's top lobbyist, CEO and (intentionally in quotes) “head of news” found time to fly to Canada to lobby behind closed doors but won't answer Summons for an open parliament hearing. It's disrespectful to the entire nation. /6 https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Wow. Yes I'm watching. 🍿 Parliament demanded Google turn over docs, emails, texts and senior execs testify in reaction to perceived threats by Google. Instead Google sent underlings. Committee just ordered they be sworn under oath after some time dodging questions. /1 #CHPC #c18 https://twitter.com/...
Jack Queen / Reuters:
A New York federal jury convicts former Fox executive Hernan Lopez of bribing soccer officials for broadcasting rights and acquits ex-Fox exec Carlos Martinez — A Brooklyn federal jury on Thursday convicted a former 21st Century Fox executive and acquitted another after a trial …
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@reuterslegal: A Brooklyn federal jury convicted a former 21st Century Fox executive and acquitted another after a trial over an alleged scheme to bribe South American soccer officials to secure lucrative broadcasting rights https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Veronica Villafañe / Media Moves: Jury in FIFA bribery case finds former Fox execs Hernan López guilty, acquits Carlos Martínez
Sareen Habeshian / Axios: Former Fox exec found guilty in bribery scheme for soccer game rights
Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone: Former Fox Exec Found Guilty in FIFA Bribery Case
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