‘Impartial’ BBC chief cries foul over Blatter

DANNy CoheN, the politically correct BBC Director of Television who showed Jeremy Clarkson the door for offending against the corporation’s rules, could find himself in some hot water.

Cohen made his opposition to Sepp Blatter’s re- election clear with a series of tweets from his official BBC Twitter account.

‘Fifa decision to re- elect Blatter is beyond belief. it tells you that the whole organisation needs re-building from scratch,’ tweeted Cohen, who added that Blatter was ‘utterly lacking in selfawareness’ and retweeted others who called for the football boss to go.

Cohen might have been expressing a popular view — but there is the small matter of the BBC’s impartiality rules for social media, which stress ‘nothing should appear which undermines the integrity or impartiality of the BBC’.

in particular, staff ‘must not advocate any particular position on an issue of current public controversy or debate’.

Cohen’s ill-advised tweets prompted replies questioning whether the BBC would follow through with a boycott of the 2018 World Cup after it appeared to have taken a stand over the Blatter affair.

Jeremy Clarkson, who reported his hotel ‘fracas’ to Cohen, will no doubt hope the Director of Television follows Beeb procedure by immediately making his line manager aware of his breach.