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Will Gary Lineker get a red card from the BBC over his tweets? Probably not

Mark My Words

The Guardian Gary Lineker may have famously managed to avoid being carded for foul play during a 16-year professional football career, but the latest politically loaded social media salvo from the BBC’s highest-paid presenter has the corporation’s director general seeing red. In that sense Gary Lineker is bigger than the BBC.

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Meet BBC’s ‘Mr Safe’: New political editor Chris Mason’s pals joke he’s been like a 50-year-old since he was a student, he once considered being a bus driver and still subscribes to his local Yorkshire paper

Mark My Words

To this day, Mason makes sure that he gets every print copy of the local Craven Herald and Pioneer newspaper posted down to his south-east London home, where he now lives with his primary schoolteacher wife and their two sons. . There isn’t any journalistic or media heritage in the family. Even he can’t quite explain.

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A call for a public inquiry into the impact of media and tech on democracy

Stephen Waddington

In the past six weeks, during the General Election campaign in the UK, we’ve witnessed an erosion of trust in institutions and the media. Trust in the media was 37%. The rise of social media and tech platforms in the last decade means that anyone can create and share content. Their very foundations are crumbling.