From the BBC itself,
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said “heads should roll” at the BBC, following reports that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by US President Donald Trump.
The Telegraph said it had seen an internal memo suggesting the programme edited two parts of Trump’s speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021.
The BBC responds to the BBC,
A BBC spokesperson said: “While we don’t comment on leaked documents, when the BBC receives feedback it takes it seriously and considers it carefully.”
What did the BBC do? The BBC reports,
In his speech in Washington DC on 6 January 2021, Trump said: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.”
However, in Panorama’s edit, he was shown saying: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol… and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.”
The two sections of the speech that were edited together were more than 50 minutes apart.
Selective editing. The BBC reports about the BBC,
According to the Telegraph, the document said Panorama’s “distortion of the day’s events” would leave viewers asking: “Why should the BBC be trusted, and where will this all end?”
When the issue was raised with managers, the memo continued, they “refused to accept there had been a breach of standards”.
As a taxpayer-funded state broadcaster, the BBC answers to no one, much less the BBC.
The newspaper said a whistleblower sent a copy of the 19-page dossier to every member of the BBC board last month. BBC News has not seen a copy of the memo.
Why should they?
