Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "Sack Lineker? + "Small Boats" Law Won't Stop Illegal Migrants + Hancock's WhatsApp Messages" video.

Lineker has been happy to take the pieces of silver offered from Walker's owner Pepsico since 1994 which doesn't exactly have a stellar ethics or human rights record and nor could one argue that it's selling products that are exactly compatible with a healthy lifestyle or aren't aimed at predominantly younger people in an age of recognised spiralling obesity. He was also happy to take a king's ransom from Qatar between 2009 and 2013 presenting part-time for Al Jazeera, but he obviously had an epiphany more recently on its holding of the World Cup there although it didn't stop him entirely.... He's now worth an estimated £30m so it's hardly surprising that he feels all but untouchable, but Lineker is just another wretched celebrity example of someone who can afford to hold what are essentially 'luxury values'. Hopefully the BBC will ditch him and any of those who've yoked themselves to his self serving virtue signalling caravan and he can bugger off and become a social influencer and say whatever he likes. He won't get the audience and he won't get the prestige, but he'll likely get way more of the money he clearly loves than he would at the BBC and most of us will be largely spared from his ill-inforned headline grabbing smug blatherings in future.
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In a way this gets right to the heart of why the BBC has become a problem in so many people's eyes. It arguably began during the Paxman era, perhaps before, whereby 'personalities' felt that rather than just doing the jobs well that they were paid well to do like the 'show don't tell' Days and Waldens of the previous era they then felt that the audiences somehow needed to know where they stood on any given subject all the time. I accept it can be a fine line, but fast forward to today and one can't turn on the BBC without feeling that one is being preached to all the time about something or other. Lineker is, I feel, one of the last stands at the OK Corral for the BBC if it wishes to very belatedly reassert its journalistic integrity and professed neutrality.
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