I note some interest, but no surprise, that the Usual Suspects are silent regarding the BBC/Gary Lineker dispute.
You could always post about it yourself rather than trying to make some lameass point about the usual suspects. You can do it.
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You could always post about it yourself rather than trying to make some lameass point about the usual suspects. You can do it.
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So could you....You could always post about it yourself rather than trying to make some lameass point about the usual suspects. You can do it.
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And on a related note the BBC won't be broadcasting one episode of Attenborough's new series Wild Isles due to fears of a right-wing backlash. To risky to tell the truth about the destruction of the UK environment, given the mindset of Tory politicians and the right-wing press.
Look, cancel culture......
Look, cancel culture......
angrysoba
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smartcooky
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What do we call this then... "uncancelled"? ... "decancelled?" ... "miscancelled"? ... "discancelled"?
wareyin
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I think that since the folks who see cancel culture everywhere are happy to use people and things that weren't cancelled as examples of "cancel culture", that would still apply to this case.
Yet we have one of the most taken by the cancel culture manufactroversy participants here calling that one fake. Odd, that.
Who called what fake?
wareyin
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If you are unable to find the word "fake" in the posts on this page, I don't think I can spoon feed you any better.
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And if that poster had bothered to Do The Research, rather than obediently swallowing and regurgitating HuffPoo, he'd have noticed something interesting...
https://www.countryfile.com/news/wild-isles-david-attenborough/
versus
https://web.archive.org/web/2023030...yfile.com/news/wild-isles-david-attenborough/
For those of hard of comprehension.
The original article had this:
The revised article:
Great non answer so we'll just go with somebody confused the Linekar issue with the BBC issue and done screwed up. Don't worry, it happens.
Crap source. They were obviously confused about the BBC airing Wild Isles as a five parter and keeping the "sixth" episode back for iPlayer only then they realized their error.
Look here, these guys made the series.
wareyin
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What can you expect when one's reading comprehension is so low they can't even do a word search on this page of this forum? They're only in it when it stokes their confirmation bias and gives them a sweet, sweet hit of poutrage. They're definitely not in it to find the actual facts.
Pixel42
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The Radio Times says the series is five episodes, and was partly funded by the RSPB and WWF. It says there's "an issue-based companion programme, also narrated by Attenborough, commissioned by the two charities. Because of their involvement it has been acquired by the BBC for broadcast not as a sixth episode but on iPlayer only".
There there, no need to admit guilt about mixing up Linekar/Wild Isles, rageposting can do that to a person however the jury here at Confusion Court has seen the plain-as-day evidence and are expected to return with a guilty verdict any minute now.
As does every other source making the original unsourced claim that the BBC is too terrified to offer up the "sixth" episode via regular broadcast due to a feared backlash from the right wing bogeyman only worth repeating around a late night campfire with a flashlight held under your chin.
wareyin
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I guess that made sense to you, but for those of us not on a poutrage high it just seems like word salad.
I know eh. I wouldn't expect someone who was unable to separate the Linekar issue from the Wild Isles issue to easily parse a two sentence post like that but at least we'll all sleep soundly knowing that the BBC won't be experiencing a right wing cancel culture Twitter mob (or something) over that secret last episode as it'll be only available to the iPlayer elite.
Whew.
wareyin
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You seem to think anyone here was conflating "the Linekar issue" with "the Wild Isles issue", and because of that you are somehow superior to anyone.
I think that's part of the poutrage high, right?