err, i'm not saying it's 'ok'. I'm pointing out the hypocrisy of the 'unbiased reporting' policy.
as for your second 'point' like pen4's, what's that got to do with it? they are both employees with public facing personas, either full time or contracted. in the case of day he did it on bbc time not for example in a newspaper column (the then equivalent of social media, but thanks for pretending it's ok because there wasn't anything like it back then) which could be argued is even more egregious, but nothing was done, because the sensible point to be made is people are entitled to criticize a govt policy without losing their jobs or being suspended for it