International Insider: BBC’s Social Media Guide; San Sebastián Stories; Wootton & Fox In Hot Water
deadline.comIt’s Friday, aka Insider Day. Jesse Whittock back again to run you through the international film and TV stories dominating the headlines this week. Steadying the flagship: Easily one of the BBC‘s biggest ongoing headaches is around how the broadcaster’s most popular stars and presenters engage on social media platforms.
The issue blasted back into life earlier this year when Match of the Day presenter and Twitter/X fanatic Gary Lineker tweeted to liken the language used by the British government around its asylum seeker policy to that of Germany in the 1930s and was temporarily suspended by the BBC.
After an outcry over the suspension, which included many of Lineker’s colleagues stopping work in solidarity, he was reinstated and the BBC plunged into an existential crisis over how it remains impartial while allowing freedom of expression to its biggest stars.
Director General Tim Davie soon employed former ITN CEO John Hardie to launch a wide-ranging, independent review of the BBC’s social media usage guidelines, and this week we finally found out what that entails.
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