Posted on 11/10/2025 5:52:01 AM PST by Red Badger
Two top bosses at the BBC, including Tim Davie, its director-general and editor-in-chief, have resigned after a bombshell report found it “doctored” video of a speech President Donald Trump gave to make it appear like he was calling on his supporters to “fight” and be violent during the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot.
BBC News CEO Deborah Turness joined Davie in quitting; she resigned on Saturday, and Davie quit on Sunday. Their resignations come less than a week after The Telegraph reported editors for Panorama, the BBC’s longest-running investigative series, duped viewers during an October 2024 special by altering the sequence of a speech Trump gave in 2021.
“I wanted to let you know that I have decided to leave the BBC after 20 years. This is entirely my decision, and I remain very thankful to the Chair and Board for their unswerving and unanimous support throughout my entire tenure, including during recent days,” Davie said in a statement.
He added “there have been some mistakes made and as Director-General I have to take ultimate responsibility.” He did not specifically reference the doctored Trump footage or any other errors in particular.
Turness did reference The Telegraph report in her own statement, saying “the ongoing controversy around the Panorama on President Trump has reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC — an institution that I love.”
She added “the buck stops with me,” and said the report does not prove the BBC is “institutionally biased.”
Their resignations comes after Panorama was exposed for misleadingly editing Trump’s speech to supporters in early 2021.
“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell,” Trump is heard saying on the program.
In reality, he said: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.”
Trump, a moment later, added he wanted his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” make their voices heard — something that was left out of the 2024 special, titled Trump: A Second Chance?
An internal UK government report, which The Telegraph’s story is based on, found the show “completely misled” viewers with its editing.
“Examining the charge that Trump had incited protesters to storm Capitol Hill, it turned out that Panorama had spliced together two clips from separate parts of his speech. This created the impression that Trump said something he did not and, in doing so, materially misled viewers,” wrote Michael Prescott, a media advisor who led the report on BBC bias.
In reality, he said: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.”
Trump, a moment later, added he wanted his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” make their voices heard — something that was left out of the 2024 special, titled Trump: A Second Chance?
An internal UK government report, which The Telegraph’s story is based on, found the show “completely misled” viewers with its editing.
“Examining the charge that Trump had incited protesters to storm Capitol Hill, it turned out that Panorama had spliced together two clips from separate parts of his speech. This created the impression that Trump said something he did not and, in doing so, materially misled viewers,” wrote Michael Prescott, a media advisor who led the report on BBC bias.
A very fine observation. Orwell stated:
"One of the peculiar phenomena of our time is the renegade Liberal. Over and above the familiar Marxist claim that ‘bourgeois liberty’ is an illusion, there is now a widespread tendency to argue that one can only defend democracy by totalitarian methods. If one loves democracy, the argument runs, one must crush its enemies by no matter what means. And who are its enemies? It always appears that they are not only those who attack it openly and consciously, but those who ‘objectively’ endanger it by spreading mistaken doctrines. In other words, defending democracy involves destroying all independence of thought."In a nutshell, that is what we are seeing from many American and European "liberals" today. So easily do they mouth "democracy" while working to silence other voices, even democrats [ little "d" ]
Sorry. My “Shocked, I tells ya!” meme is worn plum out.
BUMP
I always stop reading at “bombshell.” The headline will have to do LOL.
“... need to be sitting in Guantanamo Bay” - agree. Each should also have a very large ‘boyfriend’ in the same cell.
The swine claim it was just “a mistake in editing”. They must truly think people are idiots. I wonder how many other, international broadcasters picked up the BBC lie to spread it further.
Disinformation, fake news, election interference. String ‘em up!
Yep, my Tagline has been, and still is, accurate.
That word and “breaking” are so over-used. Annoying.
The last 5 dems to do it, did it of political necessity. after an OK from Schumer!
The British helped Hillary Clinton and the democrats in trying to destroy Trump. You have to wonder how big the corruption is that includes US and British and Ukraine criminals.
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