Trump threatens to sue BBC for $1 billion over Panorama editing scandal: Live

BBC supporters, including journalists Guardian And The Financial TimesAnd some BBC staff believe that, according to statements made by them, there was a systematic right-wing campaign to undermine the corporation.

Economist and former BBC governing body vice-chairman Dianne Coyle said, “This is a crisis created by public service broadcasting and the BBC’s political and commercial opponents.”

Supporters say daily leaks of criticism from the memo increased the pressure, while high-profile figures such as former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson fueled the controversy.

Alan Rusbridger, former editor of Guardian who are now prominent Possibility The magazine said that many people on the BBC board came from finance or business backgrounds, or had not worked in journalism for a long time. He said that the corporation needs a strong administration along with a new Director General.

“The board is not really in a good position to make good editorial decisions,” he said.

“Any incoming director-general will want to know who has his or her support and whether there are people who can make decisions and defend journalism when it needs to be defended, or reach sophisticated judgments when it needs to be corrected or apologized for.”

The BBC’s media correspondent, Katie Razzal, and political presenter Nick Robinson both said they were told there had been a confrontation with the board, that news executives wanted to publish an apology and that the board had blocked it.

A former presenter claims the controversy arose because the corporation was “unwilling” to listen to “recommendations from its internal system to investigate bias”.

Mark Urban, former Diplomat editor newsnighttold Sky News: “This crisis has come about because the BBC, including Deborah Turnus, was unwilling to listen and act energetically enough on the recommendations of its own internal system for checking bias.”

She highlighted gender issues, race and the reporting of Gaza.

“And I think when you put all those things together, we understand, and if you’ve been in the meetings, as I have been for many years, you’ve seen change at the BBC in recent years, I think, along with many other news organizations and many other publicly funded organisations, but you’ve also seen a lot more – for lack of a better word – awakening tendencies among younger members of staff, and tensions between young and old.

“And undoubtedly that’s what has erupted here.”

Tim Davie stepped down last week after an explosive memo accusing the BBC of bias was leaked.

The report by Michael Prescott, a former external advisor to the BBC’s Editorial Standards Committee, claimed:

• The panorama documentary Trump: Second chance? “They appeared to be taking a clearly anti-Trump stance” and that they “really misled the audience”.

• The memo said several members of staff had shared concerns about the BBC’s coverage of transgender issues. She said there were stories “celebrating the trans experience without sufficient balance or fairness”.

• Prescott said there was a “selection bias” in favor of some stories being sent as push notifications on the BBC app. The memo said there was a bias against sending stories about migration and asylum seekers.

• He also said there were “raw” stories about racism, including a BBC verified story about the link between higher car insurance premiums in ethnically diverse areas. The story has now been removed.

• Prescott highlighted concerns about biased reporting on the BBC’s Arabic service and other coverage of Gaza.

US President Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC over the way his speech was edited. panorama Documentary, his lawyers say the corporation must withdraw its documentary by Friday or face a lawsuit worth not less than $1 billion.

President Samir Shah has apologized for the “error of judgment” that led to the resignations of director-general Tim Davie and news chief Deborah Turnness on Sunday over allegations of biased editing of Mr Trump’s speech, before a mob of supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021.

Hour Documentary – Title Trump: Second chance? – aired days before the 2024 US presidential election. It stitched together three quotes from two sections of the speech, delivered about an hour apart, in what appeared to be a quote in which Mr Trump urged supporters to march with him and “fight like hell”.

Among the cut sections was a section where Mr Trump said he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.

Mr Shah said the broadcaster acknowledged that “the way the speech was edited gave the impression that there was a direct call for violent action.”

A letter from Trump’s lawyer Alejandro Brito demanded the BBC “withdraw its false, defamatory, libelous and inflammatory statements”, apologize and “fairly compensate President Trump for the losses” or face legal action for up to $1 billion in damages.

According to the BBC, Tim Davie’s salary was between £540,000 and £544,999.

He worked for the corporation for 20 years and was Director General for five years.

These are the controversies he faced: