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  • You've got to wonder what the back story to how this all played out was.

    My understanding is that:

    1. Gary tweets
    2. BBC tells him to remove the tweet as it "breaches the impartiality guidelines"
    3. Gary says no
    4. BBC slaps him

    I can understand that in between 1. and 2. there is some reflexive response from someone - person A gets a call from B who says "yo, have you seen Liniker's tweet? Tell him to wind his neck in". So person A asks for the tweet to be removed.

    But between 3. and 4. you'd have thought that person A would have checked how strong their position was, right? I mean he's a big name not a budding weather presenter on the One Show trying to climb the slippery stick. You'd want to know what your next couple of moves are surely.

    So without getting too 4d chess about it, there must have been a strategy to this. So I wonder what the aim was?

  • A would have checked how strong their position was, right?

    BBC aren't obliged to put Gary in front of a camera, as far as I can tell. They can just pay him and his team to twiddle their thumbs.

    Obvs. it looks bad, but the current regime can say 'stupid contract we wouldn't write today' or something.

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