hello and welcome to the programme. the impact of bbc sports presenter gary lineker s removalfrom match of the day is continuing to affect the bbc s sports output today. the controversy over the broadcaster and his tweets criticising the uk government s policy on asylum seekers shows no sign of abating. he d been told by the bbc to step back from presenting its flagship football show match of the day. on saturday, it led to widespread disruption of the corporation s football coverage, as fellow presenters and commentators pulled out in support of the former england international. steffan powell reports. here is the best of the day s action. a match of the day like no other, not even a theme tune. just football and fan noise. i am going to walk my dog and do my shopping. would you mind letting me do it on my own? but this disagreement between gary lineker and bbc bosses is now much more than one programme. he went on to say that he could not comment on decisions about his
you very much in the. indeed. just to remind you, the story obviously dominating the uk media and so far, match of the day and match of the day two and some other big sporting highlights which were due to be shown on the bbc have for now either been postponed or been changed, so we are waiting for more comments from the bbc and indeed of course we have not yet heard directly from gary lineker either. werejoined now by our heard directly from gary lineker either. were joined now by our media correspondent who is here with us and i wanted to bring you into this because we have been talking about what the bbc has been doing and its reaction, have we heard any more today from the bbc side? today from the bbc side? nothing other than an today from the bbc side? nothing other than an announcement - today from the bbc side? nothing other than an announcement of i today from the bbc side? nothing | other than an announcement of all the various other bits of destruction to bbc output, t
they he embarrassed themselv themselves. and the channels facing that news channel, what s the biggest misconception at cnn. that it s a liberal network, it s not. asked what to do to change that. make sure we have the right balances of voices, good conservatives, good liberals, experts in all areas, it s a serious news network. so, judy on the one hand he says we re not biased, but on the other hand he says we need more balance, how do you explain that? i m going to leave that to phil kent s publicity people. i think what struck me about it was this breitbart went through a list of issues and compared msnbc s positions to cnn s position and found no difference in terms of their on-air presentation on benghazi, on gun control, on
they he embarrassed themselv themselves. and the channels facing that news channel, what s the biggest misconception at cnn. that it s a liberal network, it s not. asked what to do to change that. make sure we have the right balances of voices, good conservatives, good liberals, experts in all areas, it s a serious news network. so, judy on the one hand he says we re not biased, but on the other hand he says we need more balance, how do you explain that? i m going to leave that to phil kent s publicity people. i think what struck me about it was this breitbart went through a list of issues and compared msnbc s positions to cnn s position and found no difference in terms of their on-air presentation on benghazi, on gun control, on