{"id":30559,"date":"2023-03-14T16:52:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T16:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/14\/not-affected-by-one-party-or-other-bbc-boss-denies-tory-pressure-in-gary-lineker-row\/"},"modified":"2023-03-14T16:52:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T16:52:35","slug":"not-affected-by-one-party-or-other-bbc-boss-denies-tory-pressure-in-gary-lineker-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=30559","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Not affected by one party or other&#8217; &#8211; BBC boss denies Tory pressure in Gary Lineker row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The BBC&#8217;s director general Tim Davie has said that the corporation&#8217;s decisions are not influenced by pressure from any political party, when questioned on whether he bowed to pressure from the Conservative party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Match of the Day&#8217;s Gary Lineker was stepped back from presenting by the BBC, after tweeting in criticism of the government&#8217;s immigration plans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In an interview, Mr Davie was speaking to the BBC&#8217;s Media Correspondent David Sillito, following a weekend of disrupted programming as many sports pundits and presenters pulled out of programmes in solidarity with Mr Lineker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-64937660?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The BBC&#8217;s director general Tim Davie has said that the corporation&#8217;s decisions are not influenced by pressure from any political party, when questioned on whether he bowed to pressure &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}