You've got to wonder what the back story to how this all played out was.
My understanding is that:
Gary tweets
BBC tells him to remove the tweet as it "breaches the impartiality guidelines"
Gary says no
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?
Yes, there is that, but the Tory's end goal is the sell off the BBC and part of that road map will be to damaging it in the eye's of the public so to a degree this has been a win win for them.
You've got to wonder what the back story to how this all played out was.
My understanding is that:
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?