Trump threatens to sue BBC
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U.S. president Donald Trump threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion, demanding retraction and compensation after the broadcaster apologised for an allegedly misleading edit of his Jan. 6 speech.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
by Cas Mudde Reposted by Axel Bruns
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Donald Trump threatens BBC with $1bn lawsuit as chair says speech edit was ‘error of judgment’ – latest updates
BBC chair Samir Shah apologises for way in which speech from US president was edited after corporation’s two most senior executives resign We have heard from Culture, Media and Sport committee chair Caroline Dinenage , who has suggested that the outgoing BBC director Tim Davie ignored an internal dossier into bias at the BBC (see post at 09. 06 for more detail on the dossier). She said Davie “ignored” concerns raised in Michael Prescott’s report over the way the speech by Donald Trump was edited for Panorama . I’m very sad about Tim Davie stepping down. I think he was an effective leader at the BBC. I think he was a great champion for public service media, but there is no escaping the fact that he was very slow to act on this particular issue. But this isn’t the first time and on this particular issue, Michael Prescott’s report, he just didn’t take it seriously until it was too late. I would like to say it has been the privilege of my career to serve as the CEO of BBC News and to work with our brilliant team of journalists. I stepped down over the weekend because the buck stops with me. But I’d like to make one thing very clear, BBC News is not institutionally biased. That’s why it’s the world’s most trusted news provider. Continue reading. . .
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If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it: this could be the beginning of the end | Polly Toynbee
Replacing the TV licence with a means-tested alternative may help disarm the right of one of its most effective weapons Gotcha! The BBC’s enemies have taken two scalps and inflicted maximum damage. The shock resignation of the director general, Tim Davie, and the head of news, Deborah Turness, make it look as if the BBC accepts that it does indeed suffer from “serious and systemic” bias in its coverage of issues including Donald Trump, Gaza and trans rights. But in this political coup, only the BBC’s sworn ideological foes think a cherrypicked sample of journalistic errors amounts to “systemic” bias. It was indeed a bad mistake to splice together two bits of Trump’s speech; but it needed a quick apology, not a decapitation. The BBC’s chair, Samir Shah, I’m told, tried to persuade Davie to stay to avoid this apparent capitulation to critics: Davie should indeed have stood his ground, not weakened the BBC by walking away. Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist Continue reading. . .
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That mission, of course, was to destroy the BBC.
That mission, of course, was to destroy the BBC.
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The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
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GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
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GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
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by Andrew Scott Reposted by Mark Priestley, Peter Holmes
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