- Tim Davie, the BBC’s director-general, recently banned Gary Lineker from presenting the football highlights over his intemperate tweets about the rhetoric used by Conservative ministers to justify their new asylum policy.
- Ex-footballers and others who produce entertainment for the BBC have long been able to enjoy greater freedom on what they can say and do than those who cover news.
- Bob Chapek and Tim Davie face similar challenges of pressure from politicians that pushes them in a conservative direction, and pressure from staff that moves them in a liberal one.
- Social media has created a new realm of speech that is neither public nor private, creating problems for leaders of organisations.
- The challenge for politicians, CEOs and other leaders today is to argue that the only reasonable expectation you have of a service is professionalism.
Gary Lineker and free speech’s problematic new realm
Social media is neither public nor private, creating problems for leaders of organisations
Stephen Bush
