“Fear of politicians' wrath” wrongly influenced the BBC's excessive coverage of the GaryLineker migrant row, one of the country's most senior media figures has told The Yorkshire Post
Byrne, who received national media attention in 2019 for calling Mr Johnson a “known liar”, told an audience at the University of Leeds that she had received “increasingly desperate texts” from several BBC programmes asking for her view on the Lineker situation.
She said: “To each request, I said the same thing. I would happily come on to decry the way the BBC was being manipulated by PR machines using Garygate to distract attention from the real issue - which was whether the government’s policy on refugees was moral, legal or viable. But I would not contribute to the confabulated story about a crisis in the BBC’s reputation for impartiality.
“I said I understood why the Gary Lineker story would be on the front page of the right wing press every day, along with Harry and Meghan. But why was the BBC doing the same? When I said that was the only view I would give, they didn’t want me. My voice was denied. How impartial was that?” She added: “The story grew bigger of course when other football pundits refused to do BBC match coverage. Everyone was talking about it – but, as we all know, what’s interesting to the public isn’t the same as what’s in the public interest. There is no way BBC outlets would have devoted such huge coverage to the Lineker story if it had not involved the BBC itself. Gary Lineker is not a politician or a political journalist, he’s a freelance sports commentator.
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