Doctorin' the POTUS: The BBC Aired More Doctored Video of Trump

The BBC didn't just run heavily-doctored video of Trump seeming to urge his supporters to go to the Capitol and riot on the premiere BBC program (or 'programme') Panorama.

They ran similar doctored footage on BBC Newsnight.

That means more editors and "journalists" saw the footage and decided to lie.

In addition, it is now revealed that they were warned about the deceptive nature of the edit, and decided they were fine with it.

The BBC doctored footage of a Donald Trump speech a second time and ignored concerns that were raised about it, The Telegraph can reveal.

Spliced footage of the speech, which aired in an episode of Newsnight in 2022, made it appear that Mr Trump was encouraging his supporters to riot.

The edit was similar to a version aired in a Panorama documentary that was broadcast last year.

...

A former White House chief of staff criticised the BBC on air for "splicing" the footage, but his concerns were ignored by Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark.

A whistleblower told The Telegraph that a further discussion the following day was also shut down.

The revelation risks plunging the corporation further into crisis, after the Panorama edit was disclosed in an internal dossier on bias that was leaked to The Telegraph.

It is also likely to raise fresh questions about the future of Jonathan Munro, Ms Turness's deputy, who has been put in charge of the BBC's overall news operation since her departure.

At the time of the broadcast, Mr Munro was interim director of news and current affairs with ultimate responsibility for Newsnight.

...

BBC insiders have sought to portray the bias allegations as part of a Right-wing coup against its news operation, suggesting that individual errors were not evidence of a systemic problem.

However, the separately doctored Newsnight footage - which was disclosed to The Telegraph by a separate whistleblower who had worked on the programme - suggests issues are more ingrained in the corporation than its defenders claim.

Given that the Newsnight footage was broadcast more than two years before Panorama doctored the same speech, and concerns were raised at the time, it also risks triggering new scrutiny of the claim that Panorama's edits were an innocent mistake.

...

There is no cross-fade or similar device in the Newsnight footage to suggest that the speech has been cut together.

On Newsnight, after the footage was played, Ms Wark interviewed Mick Mulvaney, who was previously acting White House chief of staff for Mr Trump. He resigned from the administration following the storming of the Capitol.

...

Mr Mulvaney continued: "Your video actually spliced together the presentation. He said: 'We're gonna go down and we're gonna cheer on our senators and our house members' and then it actually goes on to say 'And some of them we might not be able to' and that line about 'and we fight and fight like hell' is actually later in the speech yet your video makes it look like those two things came together.

"That's the type of messaging here that so many people in my country find frustrating is that it's hard to actually get the facts. If we're going to have a debate about what this was and prevent it from happening again, I think part of that is to make sure we're straightforward in our presentation of what actually happened."

...

A whistleblower claimed that concerns about the footage were subsequently raised during an editorial meeting the following morning, but were dismissed.

...

"One producer said, 'How did that go out'? 'Why did that happen?' And the editorial editor, not the VT [video tape] editor, kind of brushed it off. And I thought that that was extraordinary, that something like that had gone out."
...

An internal memo by Michael Prescott, who spent three years as an independent external adviser to the broadcaster's Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee, said: "Examining the charge that Trump had incited protesters to storm Capitol Hill, it turned out that Panorama had spliced together two clips from separate parts of his speech. This created the impression that Trump said something he did not and, in doing so, materially misled viewers."

Not that you need Joe Rogan to tell you this is f***ed up, but he is telling you that.

In case you didn't know.

Podcast host Joe Rogan called out the BBC on Wednesday over the scandal over the network's deceptively edited video of former President Donald Trump, saying it shows the "deep rot" in mainstream media.

...

Rogan discussed the scandal multiple times this week, arguing on his podcast that it was "not journalism, but, like, full-on lying and propaganda. And it's kinda f--ing dangerous."

"It seems like these people -- this is just my opinion -- felt justified for completely lying, because it would lead to an ultimate good. So they lost all journalistic integrity. And it is the BBC, which is like the height of journalistic integrity," Rogan said.

"If that doesn't show the rot of mainstream, corporate-controlled media, then nothing does. Because that's pure rot," Rogan said. "At the top of the heap, if someone quoted a source, and it was the BBC, I'd think, 'OK, that's like The Washington Post or The New York Times.' It's a very official source, so I'd assume, 'This must be real.'"

Now, he said, things are different: "They turned it into activism, and they turned it into lying -- and they did it in front of everyone, where you could clearly just listen to the full speech and know he didn't say that. That's not how he said it at all."

posted by Ace at 03:13 PM

| Access Comments