Saturday 19 November 2022 12:59 AM BBC stars in Qatar have been given a 'cheat sheet' for tricky questions on ... trends now
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Top BBC stars in Qatar have been handed a cheat sheet on how to answer tricky questions if they do not want to talk about the controversies over the country hosting the World Cup.
In guidance sent to its army of pundits, presenters and commentators, the broadcaster says it will address the controversy in its coverage, but its big names are not obliged to do so in interviews.
Instead they can use the ‘World Cup Briefing’ document to get around questions about Qatar’s record on human rights and workers’ rights by explaining that they are there to focus on the football while pointing to the BBC’s highlighting of these issues elsewhere.
Lead presenter, and BBC star, Gary Lineker is among those to have called this year’s World Cup ‘corrupt’
The BBC insists if that if any of the stars wish to talk about the Qatari state, they are free to do so.
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