{"id":120516,"date":"2023-10-24T11:19:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T11:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=120516"},"modified":"2023-10-24T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T11:19:43","slug":"tory-mps-should-ask-bbc-chief-tim-davie-these-10-questions-in-crunch-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/tory-mps-should-ask-bbc-chief-tim-davie-these-10-questions-in-crunch-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Tory MPs should ask BBC chief Tim Davie these 10 questions in crunch meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Davie admits regret over Gary Lineker affair<\/h3>\n

BBC Director General Tim Davie will have his version of High Noon tomorrow with Conservative MPs when he makes good on accepting an invitation to go and speak to them.<\/p>\n

While some on the left think Davie should be nowhere near a room full of Tory politicians, the Director General himself will not be expecting a warm reception even if he gets a polite one.<\/p>\n

From Gary Lineker to Carol Vorderman, to shameful coverage of the terror attacks on Israel, and ongoing questions about the licence fee, the BBC boss is going to have prepared for a tough grilling.<\/p>\n

In some ways the meeting itself could prove to be a watershed moment for the future of the BBC and whether it struggles on in its current form paid for by a regressive tax and riddled with bias.<\/p>\n

But here are the 10 top questions that Tory MPs should be asking tomorrow.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: <\/strong> Gary Lineker row leads to BBC chief Tim Davie showdown with Tory MPs next week<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1. Gary Lineker, why?<\/h3>\n

The Match of the Day presenter in so many ways is the face of everything that is wrong about the BBC and it is hard to know which issue is the worst.<\/p>\n

MPs may wish to know why a Corporation which claims it is short of money pays a man more than \u00a31.2million a year to present football highlights – not that he is the only overpaid celeb on their books.<\/p>\n

They may want to know why single mums from some of the poorest households have in recent years gone to prison for not paying these millionaire salaries.<\/p>\n

But most of all they will want to know why Lineker is protected by the BBC and essentially given a platform to compare the current Government to the Nazis and push his own woke agenda.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Why does the BBC hate Britain?<\/h3>\n

Hating Brexit was one thing, and the BBC did hate Brexit as was clear with its bias in covering the debate, but the Corporation has come over time and again as just anti-Britain as well.<\/p>\n

We could start with the BBC referring to the heroic Dambusters raid in the Second World War as “infamous”.<\/p>\n

Then we had the actually infamous occasion BBC breakfast presenters mocked the Union Jack by a minister Robert Jenrick’s desk during a live interview.<\/p>\n

That does not include all the support for BLM, the documentaries blaming Britain for the slave trade or the selecting of a Eurovision contestant who openly hates this country.<\/p>\n

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3. Is the BBC institutionally anti-Semitic or does it just hate Israel?<\/h3>\n

Nothing has shocked more than the BBC’s shameful coverage of the terror attacks on Israel.<\/p>\n

In particular the issue over the BBC refusing to call Hamas terrorists, despite it being proscribed as a terrorist group and the slaughter of more than 1,400 Israeli citizens on October 7 including mutilating and burning to death children. Not to mention the rapes, kidnappings and injuries caused to hundreds more.<\/p>\n

According to its World Affairs Editor John Simpson, the BBC never calls organisations terrorists because it takes a side.<\/p>\n

But even the faintest scrutiny shows that is not true. The BBC rightly called the Westminster Bridge attack and Paris attacks in 2017 terrorists and even referred to the murder of two Swedes in Brussels in the past week as terror.<\/p>\n

The Corporation has never published the 2004 report into whether it is biased against Israel but falsely and (according to he UK Government) wrongly stating the Israelis blew up a hospital in Gaza seems to be true to form.<\/p>\n

Philip Blond, the thinktank boss, described the BBC as “institutionally anti-Semitic”, Tim Davie has a lot of explaining on this one.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Can the BBC explain its social media policy for employees?<\/h3>\n

Gary Lineker was briefly suspended for breaching social media rules for likening the Conservative Government to the Nazis over immigration policy.<\/p>\n

Then after colleagues in BBC sport went on strike in support of him, Davie let Lineker return and the BBC rewrote the rules so Lineker could continue to attack the Government as one of the BBC’s most prominent faces.<\/p>\n

BBC Wales presenter Carol Vorderman, the former Countdown star, seems to be using her social media accounts to try to bring down the Conservative Government too.<\/p>\n

So much for impartiality.<\/p>\n