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Home » News » BBC right-wing backlash: Lineker leaves MotD & broadcaster ‘cancels’ Attenborough

BBC right-wing backlash: Lineker leaves MotD & broadcaster ‘cancels’ Attenborough

"Utterly insane!"

Joe C by Joe C
March 10, 2023
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You thought the Gary Lineker BBC row was a farce? It has just been announced Gary Lineker is “stepping back from Match of the Day”, says the BBC

Gary Lineker is "stepping back from Match of the Day", says the BBC

— Anita Singh (@anitathetweeter) March 10, 2023

Well, this will blow your mind. It seems David Attenborough is now suffering from the corporations fear of more right-wing anger.

They have decided not to broadcast an episode of David Attenborough’s new series on British wildlife because of fears its themes would risk a backlash from Tory politicians, reports The Guardian

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Senior sources at the BBC told the Guardian that the decision was made to fend off potential critique from the political right, the paper claims.

Wrecking ball

Caroline Lucas, the Green party MP for Brighton Pavilion, said: “For the BBC to censor of one of the nation’s most informed and trusted voices on the nature and climate emergencies is nothing short of an unforgivable dereliction of its duty to public service broadcasting. This government has taken a wrecking ball to our environment – putting over 1,700 pieces of environmental legislation at risk, setting an air pollution target which is a decade too late, and neglecting the scandal of our sewage-filled waterways – which cannot go unexamined and unchallenged by the public.

“BBC bosses must not be cowed by antagonistic, culture war-stoking government ministers, putting populist and petty political games above delivering serious action to protect and restore our natural world. This episode simply must be televised.”

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1.

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. pic.twitter.com/xeUZIgy0J8

— Count Binface (@CountBinface) March 10, 2023

2.

What a bizarre decision!

Who are the Chair and Director General?

Oh… https://t.co/LEzALlR25x

— Dr Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) March 10, 2023

3.

Forget Lineker, this is what real partiality looks like, one might even say, fascism:

The BBC is so scared of extreme, rightwing climate change-deniers, that it won’t broadcast a David Attenborough documentary.

Utterly insane!https://t.co/652BMUIpi5

— The Purple Pimpernel (@Eyeswideopen69) March 10, 2023

4.

🚨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://t.co/uOXT3r4mnl

— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) March 10, 2023

5.

Please don’t tell me the BBC is impartial when it can do this to appease the fascists in our government and media who want to destroy our planet and our children’s future https://t.co/jvUOwkp8KC

— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) March 10, 2023

6.

F*** me they are censoring DAVID ATTENBOROUGH! What has happened to my country???

BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of rightwing backlash | BBC | The Guardian https://t.co/QT9G5OKzR9

— Siob, Princess of Yorkshire #FBPE #FBR (@Sillyshib) March 10, 2023

7.

So here's 'impartiality' for you, the BBC refusing to air an episode of something made by one of the greatest naturalists ever to walk the earth because it might upset some right wing ministers.

GET IN THE BIN you vapid cowards.

Do your bloody job. https://t.co/HgfBOrTu9w

— Brendan May (@bmay) March 10, 2023

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