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BBC to apologise for doctored Trump speech
The Telegraph ^ | 08 November 2025 | Robert Mendick

Posted on 11/08/2025 7:55:50 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

The BBC will apologise for the misleading editing of a Donald Trump speech in a Panorama documentary, the Telegraph can disclose.

Samir Shah, the BBC’s chairman, will write to the culture, media and sport committee on Monday to express regret for the way the speech, made on the day of the Jan 6 2021 Capitol riot, was spliced together.

The apology will heap further pressure on Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, to quit over an 8,000-word dossier compiled by a whistleblower that alleged widespread bias within the corporation.

The Telegraph has previously disclosed that both Mr Davie and Mr Shah were warned of the doctored footage in May but appear to have kept quiet.

The decision to issue an apology now raises questions about why it has taken them six months to admit viewers were misled.

The Telegraph understands the apology will be for the misleading editing of the Trump speech. It is not clear what Mr Shah will say about the coverage of the Gaza war or alleged bias in the BBC’s reporting on gender, but it is understood that he may also advocate changes to the management and oversight of BBC Arabic.

The Panorama episode, broadcast a week before the 2024 US election, “completely misled” viewers, according to the memo written by Michael Prescott, a former standards adviser to the BBC.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: actofwar; bbc; destroymi6; electioninteference; expelbbcreporters; expleukfromnato; governmentpropaganda; mi6; mi6propaganda; progovernment; r; samirshah; staterunmedia
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1 posted on 11/08/2025 7:55:50 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

What a crock!

They will just do it again.


2 posted on 11/08/2025 7:58:00 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Apology not accepted.


3 posted on 11/08/2025 7:59:21 PM PST by E Pluribus Bellum
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To: MinorityRepublican

https://youtu.be/4u49BiZI6Rc


4 posted on 11/08/2025 8:04:33 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: MinorityRepublican

BBC needs to be shut down.

Yesterday....


5 posted on 11/08/2025 8:05:54 PM PST by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Edited vs original clip
https://rumble.com/v71697c-bbc-edited-footage-of-trumps-jan-6-speech-by-splicing-footage-together-to-m.html


6 posted on 11/08/2025 8:07:26 PM PST by janetjanet998 (Please don’t use google products, especially YouTube )
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To: MinorityRepublican

The British government is busy jailing its native white people for spreading g misinformation. Yet the BBC gets a pass on its lies about Trump.


7 posted on 11/08/2025 8:07:48 PM PST by Redcitizen
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ain’t Communism wonderful.


8 posted on 11/08/2025 8:12:06 PM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Damage done & mission accomplished.


9 posted on 11/08/2025 8:21:32 PM PST by iamgalt ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

And the lie has made it around the world and embedded itself into the weak-minded morons world-wide.

They do this intentionally. “Oh, we are so sorry for that. We will send out a correction on that. Hope it didn’t cause too many problems.”


10 posted on 11/08/2025 8:24:16 PM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: E Pluribus Bellum

Trump should sue them……bigtime.


11 posted on 11/08/2025 8:34:42 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: MinorityRepublican

They’ll only refer to him as “Mr. Trump”, the disrespectful bastards.


12 posted on 11/08/2025 8:37:13 PM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now,)
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You describe them perfectly.


13 posted on 11/08/2025 8:46:41 PM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: rlmorel

How many are still repeating the lies from Charlottesville?


14 posted on 11/08/2025 9:19:36 PM PST by HollyB
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Samir Shah.”

Are you freaking kidding me?


15 posted on 11/08/2025 9:51:05 PM PST by cld51860 ("This business will get out of control...")
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To: E Pluribus Bellum

You are correct. An apology does not have to be accepted. The BBC is toast.


16 posted on 11/08/2025 10:56:47 PM PST by healy61
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To: MinorityRepublican

Friggin’ Brit fags. Lyin’ again. Real retarded haters.


17 posted on 11/08/2025 11:16:13 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Where does it say in the Constitution that taxpayers must feed the 42 Million SNAPPER LOSERS?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Fine, let them apologize. But then they should be banned from every square inch of federal property for the duration of this administration. Let that serve as a warning to every other media company out there that there are consequences to purposely twisting the truth.


18 posted on 11/09/2025 12:56:51 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: MinorityRepublican

NOT GOOD ENOUGH


19 posted on 11/09/2025 2:20:12 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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After this is settled, it looks like the Telegraph will be involuntarily contributing to the Trump library or the new ballroom.


20 posted on 11/09/2025 2:28:15 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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