he BBC boss Sameer Shah apologizes This Monday, in a parliamentary committee,Misjudgment“Related to the broadcast of a documentary whose material included a misleading version of Donald Trump’s speech, which caused Resignation of two senior executives chain and threat of legal action by the President of the United States.
Mr. Shah admitted in front of MPs that: Version of the U.S. President’s speech broadcast on the program panorama A week before the 2024 presidential election, he gave a ‘false’ impression. The manager explained that the assembly should have been handled more carefully.
In a letter to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Mr Shah said: He acknowledged that the altered content “could be interpreted as a direct call to violence.”an idea that doesn’t match Trump’s actual words. The head of the Corporation has pledged to tighten controls over compliance with the group’s editorial standards.
“The BBC’s commitment to impartiality is absolute” he wrote. He further added that the chain works as follows.Restore public trust and ensure journalism meets the highest editorial standards“As he explained, the matter was considered internally earlier this year, but no formal action has been taken to date. “The BBC has learned from this incident,” he said, adding: “Our duty is to Prevent errors like this from happening again”.
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Controversial version of the program panorama is an amalgamation of two different fragments of a speech Donald Trump gave on January 6, 2021, the day of the attack on the Washington Capitol. In the final version, Although the speech appeared to include a direct exhortation to “fight like the devil” and march on Congress, the phrase actually corresponded to another sentence..
send I omitted that the president at the time said: “Walk to the Capitol and cheer on your brave senators and representatives.The expression “fight like the devil” belonged to another moment in the speech, independent of its specific context.
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michael prescottformer independent adviser to the BBC Editorial Standards Board; Created an internal report that detected errors. Prescott said in a written statement that he alerted the head of standards. He said managers denied breaking any rules at the time.
The scandal led to the resignation on Sunday of the BBC’s director-general, Tim Davie, and its executive director of news, Deborah Turness. In internal messages, Mr Davie said “the BBC is working well” but acknowledged that “mistakes were made” and he must take responsibility..
Mr Turness rejected accusations of institutional bias. Speaking to journalists outside the group’s London headquarters, he defended the channel. “BBC News is unbiased. That’s why we remain the world’s most trusted news provider” he declared.
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The BBC confirmed it had received the following message: legal letter from the president of the usa. In it he said, “Defamation and intentional manipulationBritish media reported that Trump’s legal team was criticizing the channel.Do a visual test” impacted its international reputation with an amount amounting to $1 billion.
This isn’t the first time a president has gone to court with the media.: sued several American networks, including: washington post and CNalthough the judicial system has dismissed some of those cases. Trump himself celebrated his resignation on social networks. social truth ” he criticized.corrupt and immoral journalistof” BBC.
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