Twitter users divided over Clarkson departure – WBNews

The decision by the BBC to drop Jeremy Clarkson, the host of Top Gear, for carrying out a verbal and physical attack on one of the show’s producers, has been met with both condemnation and approval by social media users worldwide. Reactions range from the “BBC has killed Top Gear”, to praise for a “brave BBC”. The story was also news for media in areas as far apart as Latin America and Europe, with the Russian Defence Ministry even offering Clarkson a job at its own TV station. French daily Figaro said the announcement had had “the effect of a bomb on Twitter”. It added that “the sense of disappointment can be read in messages posted on the social network across the Channel and even in France”. Italian journalist Federico Garimberti recalled on Twitter: “Like it or not, a BBC that shows Clarkson the door demonstrates that it doesn’t give a damn about its audience. Top Gear is watched by 350 million people in 212 countries.” “This is the end of Top Gear as we know it,” Jan Micka exclaimed on the Czech website Auto.cz. In Iran, a disappointed Twitter user tried to start a trend in defence of the British TV presenter. “We are all Jeremy Clarkson,” declared @CmpiChism, arguing that “no one can present like him”. Other Iranians seemed to agree. Saman Vatanshenasan wrote on Facebook that it was “meaningless to imagine the Top Gear without Jeremy… I need to say this in support of him that I…more detail