BBC NEWS CEO RESIGNS – BBC Lambasted over fake news Trump documentary
Deborah Turness, the CEO of BBC News, and BBC director general Tim Davie quit on Sunday, November 9th, following accusations of bias at the British broadcaster, including in the way it edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump.
In the Panorama documentary broadcast last year, Trump was shown telling his supporters that “we’re going to walk down to the Capitol” and that they would “fight like hell,” a comment he made in a different part of his speech. He had actually said his supporters would “cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.”
Trump welcomed the departures, criticising the two as “very dishonest people” after the BBC’s flagship Panorama program edited two parts of one of his speeches together so he appeared to be encouraging the Capitol Hill riot of January 2021.
The BBC had been under mounting pressure after an internal report by a former standards adviser was leaked to the Daily Telegraph newspaper, which cited failings in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, transgender issues and the speech made by Trump.
In an email to staff, Turness said: “I want to be absolutely clear, recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong.” Critics simply don’t agree, and the former BBC Boss had this to say.
