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Originally Posted by Damien
I find this a bit odd as it's a relatively minor scandal. The BBC under Davie has had far bigger scandals than this.
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That’s because you’re swallowing the BBC’s relentless spin over the weekend that this relates only to an ‘oopsie!’ moment in a Panorama edit suite during which Trump may have been badly edited but was really only made to say what everyone already knew he meant. The purveyors of official comedy opinion on HIGNFY said as much on Friday night’s show, on the 15 or so seconds devoted to it.
This whole thing comes back to the Michael Prescott memo which the Telegraph got hold of last week, which tore the BBC to shreds over a range of issues. It shed light on the Panorama incident - which actually is extremely serious, and a failure of standards that is egregious and shocking for a broadcaster of the BBC’s reach and reputation - and it also detailed problems at the BBC’s out-of-control Arabic unit, which has been cheerleading for Hamas in a way the main newsroom has never done even for British armed forces since before the Falklands. The memo also set out what a lot of people have long suspected, that the BBC’s own LGBTWTAF desk has been acting as effective gatekeeper and censor, ensuring not only that approved stories are treated in approved ways, but preventing inconvenient material getting airtime at all.
The BBC’s news and current affairs operation is utterly out of control, except that parts of it absolutely are under the control of various interest groups. All of this has happened on Davie’s and Turness’ watch and they had no choice but to go.
The BBC is doing what it likes to do on its website these days and running rolling text updates which, amongst other things, allow it to acknowledge and then bury parts of the story it finds especially problematic. It has acknowledged the memo’s criticism of its Gaza and Trans coverage in this paragraph published half an hour ago:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd9k...3144b853a#post
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Prescott memo also criticised other areas of BBC News coverage
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The Telegraph reported that Michael Prescott also raised concerns about BBC Arabic's coverage of the Israel-Gaza war and a lack of action to address what he said were "systemic problems" of bias.
In response, a BBC spokesperson said "where mistakes have been made or errors have occurred we have acknowledged them at the time and taken action".
They added: "We have also previously acknowledged that certain contributors should not have been used and have improved our processes to avoid a repeat of this."
Mr Prescott had also raised concerns about the BBC's coverage around trans issues, saying it was effectively "censored" by its specialist LGBT reporters who promoted a pro-trans agenda.
His leaked memo said he had felt "despair" at the lack of action by BBC management "when issues come to light".
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