Sir, – Johnny Watterson has missed the employee engagement and management aspects of the Gary Lineker story (“Gary Lineker’s moderate views somehow seen by the right as subversive”, Sport, Analysis, January 19th).
Low-paid BBC employees, and even lower-paid contractors, have to follow the BBC’s statutory obligation to maintain political impartiality. When they see these rules not being applied to the BBC’s highest paid “star”, you can imagine what this does for trust in management and employee engagement. It seems that RTÉ is not the only media organisation where the rules have only been applied to the “little people”. – Yours, etc,
FRANK DEVINE,
Warwickshire,
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UK.