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Donald Trump says he has ‘obligation’ to sue BBC over speech edit

Donald Trump has said he feels he has “an obligation” to sue the BBC over its editing of one of his speeches, as a deadline looms for the corporation to respond to his billion-dollar legal threat.

The US president accused the broadcaster of having “defrauded the public” with an edition of Panorama last year that spliced together two parts of a speech he made on 6 January 2021 and has given it until Friday to respond.

It is seen as one of the main factors in the shock resignation on Sunday of Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, and Deborah Turness, the head of BBC News.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBBC, The Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome

From tears for Arafat to Death to the IDF’: How BBC’s Israel coverage has gone from bad to worse

In the end, it was revelations concerning the manner in which the BBC’s flagship current affairs program, “Panorama,” spliced together clips of a speech by US President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, that forced the corporation’s boss and head of news to quit on Sunday.

But director-general Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, the chief executive of BBC News, have been in the firing line for months over allegations of bias — not least because of the national broadcaster’s coverage of antisemitism, the war in Gaza, and Israel more generally.

h/t MP

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBBC, Israel

The future of the BBC is now in doubt

It always hurts when a Tim gets disgraced, but if the scalp fits the hat, wear it. Tim Davie had to resign as Director General of the BBC, as did CEO of News Deborah Turness, because the litany of errors on their watch was so great as to indicate a cultural rot from the head down. That rot has put the very future of the corporation in doubt. The BBC’s whole business model was to stake its survival on being a paragon of honesty. If it is caught lying – this brazenly, this often – consumers will revolt.

The Corporation was already in the soup for protecting vast egos accused of very different things – Gregg Wallace, Gary Lineker, Huw Edwards – and for offering a platform for anti-Semitism, but the dossier of biases that recently fell into the Telegraph’s lap took things up a notch.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBBC, The Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome

A right-wing coup at the BBC? Don’t make me laugh

Have you heard? There’s been a right-wing coup at the BBC. Apparently, a ‘cabal’ of ‘populists’ has just succeeded in ousting director-general Tim Davie and CEO of news and current affairs Deborah Turness. That, remarkably, is the high-status take following the shock resignations of Davie and Turness last night, following the outrageous, flagrant examples not simply of BBC bias, but of it pushing flat-out misinformation, detailed in an internal memo leaked to the Telegraph.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBBC

Trump threatens BBC with 1 Billion dollar lawsuit over faked documentary

Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC and welcomed the resignations of two of its most senior figures after a campaign against the broadcaster that reached fever pitch over criticism that its flagship documentary programme in 2024 used a misleading edit of a Trump speech.

Lawyers for the US president said that the BBC must retract the Panorama documentary by Friday or face a lawsuit for “no less” than $1bn (£760m), according to US media outlets who cited the letter. The BBC has confirmed it had received a letter and said it will respond in due course.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBBC, The Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome

Revealed: The devastating memo that plunged the BBC into crisis

The Telegraph has published the internal dossier that has plunged the BBC into crisis.

The document, written by former journalist Michael Prescott and sent to the BBC board, exposes a string of incidents that demonstrate serious apparent bias in the corporation’s reporting.

They include evidence that BBC Panorama “doctored” a speech by Donald Trump to make it wrongly appear as though he directly called for violence on the day that his supporters stormed the US Capitol.

Here you can read each part of the dossier in full:

Wow.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBBC, The Media Lies

BBC director-general & corporation’s news chief resign after row over Panorama’s misleading editing of Donald Trump speech

The BBC’s director-general Tim Davie has resigned amid a row over the doctoring of a Donald Trump speech for a Panorama episode.

The corporation’s CEO of News, Deborah Turness, has also resigned following criticism that the BBC documentary misled viewers.

In a statement, Mr Davie said: ‘There have been some mistakes made and as director general I have to take ultimate responsibility.’

Wow how odd to see accountability.

The altered tape.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBBC, Trump Derangement Syndrome

Trump goes to war with ‘fake news’ BBC

Donald Trump’s White House has accused the BBC of “purposeful dishonesty” amid a row over bias at the broadcaster.
It launched its attack over the way the corporation selectively edited a speech made by the president, dismissing it as “100 per cent fake news.”
British taxpayers were being “forced to foot the bill for a leftist propaganda machine”, Karoline Leavitt, Mr Trump’s press secretary said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBBC, Trump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?

Heads should roll at BBC: leaked dossier reveals doctoring of Trump video and accusations of bias in Gaza coverage

The BBC is facing calls to sack its director-general and other senior executives following accusations of “serious and systemic” editorial bias.

The Telegraph has published revelations from a leaked dossier written by a whistleblower and sent to BBC board members that details numerous instances of apparent bias at the broadcaster.

The examples include a Panorama documentary that doctored a Donald Trump speech and that BBC Arabic “minimised Israeli suffering” in its coverage of the war with Hamas to “paint Israel as the aggressor”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBBC

The BBC has gone full Pravda in its war of lies against Trump

The Beeb’s wilful distortion of Trump’s comments on 6 January 2021 was a whole new low for modern journalism.

The BBC loves to pose as a warrior against ‘fake news’. Yet it now stands accused of pushing an entirely fake account of President Trump’s behaviour on 6 January 2021. That’s the day the Capitol building in Washington, DC was stormed by a rag-tag army of angry right-wingers convinced the election had been stolen from Trump. And last year the BBC showed footage of Trump telling the mob he would march with them to the Capitol and ‘fight like hell’. Only that never happened. The BBC made it up. It doctored the footage. This is beyond serious. These are Pravda levels of manipulation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBBC, The Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome

BBC faked Trump’s Jan 6 speech

‘The BBC “doctored” a Donald Trump speech by making him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot, according to an internal whistleblowing memo seen by The Telegraph.

A Panorama programme, broadcast a week before the US election, “completely misled” viewers by showing the president telling supporters he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to “fight like hell”, when in fact he said he would walk with them “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBBC, The Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?

Questions about the BBC and the Huntingdon train attack

AT TIME of writing, two people have been arrested by police in connection with a horrendous stabbing spree of at least ten passengers on a train last night. At least one of the alleged attackers was first shot with a Taser by police officers.

The arrests, in Huntingdon where the Doncaster to King’s Cross train was brought to an emergency stop, mean that legal proceedings are now active. It is highly likely that charges will follow imminently and the media must be extremely careful not to prejudice subsequent court proceedings.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Casualty Event", BBC

B.C. premier says feds and provinces have right-left strategy to tackle Trump tariff threat

 

British Columbia Premier David Eby says his fellow premiers and the federal government have hatched a game plan to fight U.S. tariffs, with conservative premiers lobbying Republican counterparts, left-leaning provincial leaders courting the Democrats, and Ottawa focusing on president-elect Donald Trump.

Seriously, can someone explain to me why everyone is so adverse to protecting the US-Canadian border and is focused on combating tariffs?

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inBBC, Canada, Immigration invasion, US-Canada Border

BBC Runs Hit Piece on Slovakian Prime Minister Hours After He’s SHOT in Assassination Attempt

There is a time and place to be critical of a political leader if you are a news organization. However, the time to be critical of such a person is most definitely NOT just hours after an assassination attempt in which such a person lies in a hospital in critical condition from multiple bullet wounds. And yet the BBC, with the soul of a ghoul, went ahead on Wednesday and did just that hours after the Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico was shot multiple times.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBBC, Slovakia, WTF?