{"id":1217,"date":"2023-03-17T08:49:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T07:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2023-03-17T08:49:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T07:49:18","slug":"why-the-bbc-axed-then-brought-back-its-top-sports-presenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"Why the BBC axed then brought back its top sports presenter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lineker-tweet-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lineker-tweet-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lineker-tweet-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lineker-tweet-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lineker-tweet-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lineker-tweet-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lineker-tweet-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em> Lineker&#8217;s &#8220;inflammatory&#8221; tweet<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Should a hugely popular public broadcaster sports presenter be allowed to criticise the government on his personal Twitter account? The BBC decided no, and suspended England football legend Gary Lineker  \u2013 before doubling back and reinstating him. Critics from both sides of the political spectrum now have the knives out for one of the world\u2019s most respected broadcasting corporations.\u00a0This is my report for Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/BEVANGER-Lineker-BBC.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should a hugely popular public broadcaster sports presenter be allowed to criticise the government on his personal Twitter account? The BBC decided no, and suspended England football legend Gary Lineker \u2013 before doubling back and reinstating him. Critics from both sides of the political spectrum now have the knives out for one of the world\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}