[Update] BBC DG and head of news resign

[Pierre]

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv...g-trump-speech

Can’t believe “BBC Verify” didn’t pick this up!

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Pierre

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv...g-trump-speech

Can’t believe “BBC Verify” didn’t pick this up!

there will be the normal excuse of we should have picked up on it sooner and we will investigate ways so that it does not happen again (read not get found out doing it again). Starmer will do nothing as he has enough issues of his own to brush under the carpet without getting involved with the BBC

[papa smurf]

if Trump gets wind of it [pun intended] it'll bye bye trade deals and hello tariffs

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For those wondering, its an episode of Panarama they are referring to.

[Taf]

In the days before AI, there were the video and audio editors at the BBC....

I doubt he cares.

Seems like a desperate attempt to make something out of nothing TBH.

the memo claims that the film spliced together two separate parts of his speech, an hour apart, and omitted the section where he urged crowds to "peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard".

Thats called editing, pretty much a part of ever single TV show.
So their gripe seems to be it wasnt edited how "they" would have liked.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Paul

Seems like a desperate attempt to make something out of nothing TBH.



Thats called editing, pretty much a part of ever single TV show.
So their gripe seems to be it wasnt edited how "they" would have liked.

Are you letting the BBC off the hook here? That's how I read your post.

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Paul

So their gripe seems to be it wasnt edited how "they" would have liked.

No the gripe is that the video was edited to imply he directly incited people to go to Capitol Hill and fight fight fight.

It wouldn't really be that much a deal, only that the BBC have made themselves the self arbiters of truth against Mis-information and Dis-information.

Where here they have deliberately doctored video to push a narrative.

If it wasn't for Mariella Spring and BBC Verify, I probably wouldn't care. But I can't abide hyprocrisy.

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Are you letting the BBC off the hook here? That's how I read your post.

You have to be on a hook before you can be let off it ...

[Pierre]

Good

https://news.sky.com/story/tim-davie...neral-13467527

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Pierre

Good

https://news.sky.com/story/tim-davie...neral-13467527

And which woke wonder will take his place

I find this a bit odd as it's a relatively minor scandal. The BBC under Davie has had far bigger scandals than this.

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.

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

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".