UK Parliament/PA
Posted on 11/11/2025 3:23:22 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
UK Parliament/PA
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said the BBC must fight to restore trust after criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by Donald Trump.
She said a review of the broadcaster's charter would ensure a "genuinely accountable" BBC, defending it as a "national institution".
BBC director general Tim Davie earlier told staff "we've got to fight for our journalism" after the US president's threat to sue the corporation for $1bn (£760m).
A leaked internal BBC memo said the Panorama film misled viewers by splicing together parts of Trump's speech on 6 January 2021 and made it appear as if he had explicitly encouraged the Capitol Hill riot. BBC chair Samir Shah has apologised.
Davie resigned on Sunday alongside BBC News CEO Deborah Turness after mounting pressure over that memo, which was written by Michael Prescott, a former independent external adviser to the broadcaster's editorial standards committee.
The memo also accuses the BBC of issues within its Gaza coverage, particularly by BBC Arabic, anti-Trump and anti-Israel bias and one-sided transgender reporting - among other "troubling matters".
Davie told staff on Tuesday: "We have made some mistakes that have cost us, but we need to fight", adding that "this narrative will not just be given by our enemies, it's our narrative".
He said the BBC went through "difficult times… but it just does good work, and that speaks louder than any newspaper, any weaponisation".
Later on Tuesday, speaking in the Commons, Nandy warned MPs attacking the broadcaster to "consider just what is at stake".
She told the Commons: "There is a fundamental difference between raising serious concerns over editorial failings and members of this House launching a sustained attack on the institution itself, because the BBC is not just a broadcaster, it is..."
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Should have been taken off the air for Jimmy Savile, alone.
That is literally 97% of the MSM.
That will be easy, just do the following.
1. Stop lying.
2. Quit suppressing stories that are contrary to your personal political beliefs.
3. Political bias has no place in the newsroom.
4. Go through the newsroom and review past stories for political bias and fire those that are biased. Oddly there is a suitable place for bias and that is an editorial clearly labeled as such. The BBC News today is simply editorials disguised as news.
Do that Tim and the BBC will regain it rightful place of glory it had in the past. If you do not, the BBC will perish.
Now it didn't all take place at the BBC, but the vast majority of it did, from what I remember reading about when it finally was reealed.
“There is a fundamental difference between raising serious concerns over editorial failings and members of this House launching a sustained attack on the institution …”
There is a fundamental difference between editorial failings and a deliberate, malicious lie.
I think all leftists are fundamentally dishonest. they are not guided by right and wrong rather they are guided by their own feelings and a sense self virtue. Hence they have no problem actually wishing Trump assassinated. They are the god of their twisted universe.
Absolutely.
Also it turned out that Huw Edwards, who announced the Queen’s death on the BBC was another one.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9x8zllw84zo
There is a pedo statue on the building.
And even that won't cover the greater sin of story selection.
Good ‘ol Guardian. This is the second time I’ve seen them say that the BBC’s edited clip “made it appear clearer” that Trump encouraged the attack, as though it’s clear in the unedited speech that he encouraged it. So even when they admit a case of lefty bias, they stick to their bias.
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