1 week ago BBC bosses to be quizzed by MPs about its editorial standards after furore around 'misleading' Panorama episode about Donald Trump

Chairman Samir Shah, board member Sir Robbie Gibb and former editorial adviser Michael Prescott are expected to face a series of questions on editorial standards.

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3 w. ago BBC doctored a second Donald Trump speech, bombshell leaked memo reveals

The BBC, already under fire for doctoring a speech by Donald Trump in Panorama, also spliced his words in an episode of Newsnight to make him seem to encourage his followers to riot

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3 w. ago BBC apologises to Donald Trump and makes fresh broadcast vow after Panorama drama

The BBC apologised over the edit that spliced together two parts of a speech Donald Trump made during an event in Washington DC that were more than 50 minutes apart

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3 w. ago Panorama editors ‘did not know Trump speech had been spliced together’

Donald Trump has said the broadcaster ‘defrauded the public’ and that he had an ‘obligation’ to launch a $1billion lawsuit

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3 w. ago Donald Trump says he has ‘obligation’ to sue BBC over speech edit

US president sets Friday deadline for corporation to respond to billion-dollar legal threatTrump to sue BBC – latest updatesDonald Trump has said he feels he has “an obligation” to sue the BBC over its editing of one of his speeches, as a deadline looms for the corporation to respond to his billion-dollar legal threat.The US president accused the broadcaster of having “defrauded the public” with an edition of Panorama last year that spliced together two parts of a speech he made on 6 January 2021 and has given it until Friday to respond. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it: this could be the beginning of the end | Polly Toynbee

Replacing the TV licence with a means-tested alternative may help disarm the right of one of its most effective weaponsGotcha! The BBC’s enemies have taken two scalps and inflicted maximum damage. The shock resignation of the director general, Tim Davie, and the head of news, Deborah Turness, make it look as if the BBC accepts that it does indeed suffer from “serious and systemic” bias in its coverage of issues including Donald Trump, Gaza and trans rights. But in this political coup, only the BBC’s sworn ideological foes think a cherrypicked sample of journalistic errors amounts to “systemic” bias.It was indeed a bad mistake to splice together two bits of Trump’s speech; but it needed a quick apology, not a decapitation. The BBC’s chair, Samir Shah, I’m told, tried to persuade Davie to stay to avoid this apparent capitulation to critics: Davie should indeed have stood his ground, not weakened the BBC by walking away.Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Should licence fee be scrapped after BBC’s latest scandal? VOTE NOW

BBC director-general Tim Davie dramatically resigned last night following the latest scandal to hit the broadcaster. It comes after a leaked memo written by the former BBC editorial and guidelines committee adviser, said the BBC misled viewers by doctoring clips of a Donald Trump speech. A Panorama episode spliced together different sections of President Trump's...

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3 w. ago BBC expected to apologise over Panorama edit of Trump speech

The programme spliced clips together from sections of the US president’s speech on January 6 2021.

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