As the BBC reels from resignations and legal threats, new evidence reveals a culture of bias and ideological capture, from politically edited documentaries to newsroom activism and “forbidden” words like women.
If you’re wondering how the BBC plans to spend your licence fee this year, here’s a clue: it won’t be on impartial journalism.
Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion (£760 million) over claims that a Panorama documentary deliberately edited one of his speeches to make it appear as though he was inciting the January 6th Capitol riot.
According to a leaked internal memo, Panorama spliced together two separate parts of Trump’s 2021 speech, misleading viewers into believing he was calling for direct action. The BBC has since admitted it was an “error of judgement”, one that gave the “impression of a direct call for violence.”
That “error,” however, came amid a pile-up of editorial controversies. A Telegraph investigation published last week revealed an internal memo by Michael Prescott, a former external adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Standards Committee. His report accused the corporation of systemic bias, citing one-sided Gaza coverage, anti-Trump and anti-Israel framing, and ideologically skewed transgender reporting.
Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion (£760 million) over claims that a Panorama documentary deliberately edited one of his speeches to make it appear as though he was inciting the January 6th Capitol riot.
According to a leaked internal memo, Panorama spliced together two separate parts of Trump’s 2021 speech, misleading viewers into believing he was calling for direct action. The BBC has since admitted it was an “error of judgement”, one that gave the “impression of a direct call for violence.”
That “error,” however, came amid a pile-up of editorial controversies. A Telegraph investigation published last week revealed an internal memo by Michael Prescott, a former external adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Standards Committee. His report accused the corporation of systemic bias, citing one-sided Gaza coverage, anti-Trump and anti-Israel framing, and ideologically skewed transgender reporting.
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Compared with what Trump and his cronies have allegedly done against women any minor discrepancy by the BBC fades into insignificance. Trump, allegedly, Epsteim, and elements within the 'House of Windsor' have violated women driving one to suicide. Now the no doubt satatised version of the Epsteim files are coming out we will probably still be no wiser to the absolute truth.
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ReplyDeleteCaoimhin,
any minor discrepancy by the BBC fades into insignificance.
Do you want to re-think what you said?
That's what it was a minor discepancy, an editorial faux pas which BBC's right wing enemies within and outside in the Torygraph successfulky weaponised
DeleteIt was definitely not an editorial faux pas but deliberate manipulation.
DeleteThey handed it to their right wing enemies on a plate.
The right would be foolish not to take the offer.
Heads should roll over Gaza even more so than over this.
No, not really Frankie, I was referring to what Trump has said and done with immunity in the past. Have you forgotten 'Big Don' on tape in 2016, long before the Epstein files, the future President saying women "love it" referring to women enjoying being inappropriately touched, without invitation, by men like him. These comments were caught on tape but, as usual, Don brushed them off. "Any minor discrepancy by the BBC fades into insignificance" was specific to Trump and his mob, including Andrew Windsor, and not a general amnesty for the Beeb.
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I felt it was pretty clear what you meant.
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