The Head of the BBC and Its Head of News Both Resign In Wake of Revelations They Deliberately Pushed Fake News About Trump's Role in the (Also Fake) J6 Insurrection

The BBC Panorama ran stealth-edited video to make it appear that Trump was urging his followers to go to the Capitol and "fight like hell." The claim being made was that Trump told them to riot.

It was a literal stitch-up -- they framed Trump by stitching together different speeches.

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You don't have to be an uncritical fanboy of President Trump to be horrified at just how much lying the media around the world did about him. They said he was involved in election interference while they were the ones doing it!

The BBC's boss and its head of news quit on Sunday following accusations of bias at the British broadcaster, including in the way it edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump.

The publicly funded BBC had been under mounting pressure after an internal report by a former standards adviser, which cited failings in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, transgender issues and a speech made by Trump, was leaked to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

Terrorist propaganda outlet claims they "quit." In fact, they were forced out, more credible outlets report.

Trump welcomed the departures, criticising the two as "very dishonest people" after the BBC's flagship Panorama programme edited two parts of one of his speeches together so he appeared to be encouraging the Capitol Hill riot of January 2021.

Tim Davie, who has led the British Broadcasting Corporation since 2020, defended the organisation, saying its journalism was seen as the gold standard around the world. But he said mistakes had been made and he had to take ultimate responsibility.

Deborah Turness, the CEO of BBC News, also resigned. In an email to staff she said: "I want to be absolutely clear recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong."

Lie.

Widely respected around the world, the BBC still tops polls in Britain on the most trusted news brand and has huge reach in the country, providing news, entertainment and sport.

But the corporation, which is funded by a licence fee paid by all television-watching households, comes under intense scrutiny from some newspapers and critics on social media, which object to its funding model and perceived liberal stance.

"Perceived." By the way, do you know that "British Men" and "British Teens" keep attacking people with knives?

The Telegraph revealed more left-wing bias, based on leaked memos:

The leaked internal report said BBC Arabic had shown anti-Israel bias in its reporting of the war in Gaza and that an effort to cover a group campaigning for single-sex spaces had been suppressed by a small group of staff who saw it as hostile to the transgender community.

BBC Arabic was anti-Israel? Not the BBC itself?

LOL.

Also revealed today : some time back the BBC ran a story about a mass grave of Palestinian civilians, secretly buried by the IDF. Internal documents leaked today show that the BBC had hard evidence that the story was a hoax, yet they ran it anyway.

Posted by: Tom Servo

And as for the second item: The story would have been about the need for single-sex spaces to protect women but the transgenders spiked the story.

Per the NYT: Trump is now threatening to sue the BBC for defamation.

To the tune of... one billion dollars.

President Trump on Monday threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion for a documentary that his lawyer claimed included "malicious, disparaging" edits to a speech Mr. Trump delivered on Jan. 6, 2021.

The legal threat came in a letter from Alejandro Brito, one of Mr. Trump's lawyers, to the BBC that was obtained by The New York Times. The letter demanded a full retraction of the documentary, an apology and what his lawyers said would be payments that "appropriately compensate President Trump for the harm caused."

The letter said that if those demands were not met, "President Trump will be left with no alternative but to enforce his legal and equitable rights, all of which are expressly reserved and are not waived, including by filing legal action for no less than $1,000,000,000 (One Billion Dollars) in damages."

The letter said: "The BBC is on notice" and concluded: "PLEASE GOVERN YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY."

Noted scrupulously non-partisan media analyst and Sex Machine Brian Stelter called the double resignation "very notable."

Updated: Below, the former Head of News insists that the BBC is "not institutionally biased" but cannot answer why these lies were allowed to stand for nearly five years despite people pointing them out. She just says that she's sure a report will come out about that, one day.

But how would she know anything right now? She was just the head of BBC news, that's all. Above her pay grade!

Boy that BBC state media is biased, huh?

posted by Ace at 05:53 PM

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