On Sunday 9 November, Tim Davie, director general of the BBC, announced his shock resignation to his staff. Deborah Turness, director of news channels at BBC News, a symbolic department of the British broadcaster, also announced her departure. The controversy has been increasing for several days, following this revelation Daily Telegraphwhich stated that the BBC had been “biased” (allegedly failed to fulfill its neutrality obligations) regarding Donald Trump and the war in Gaza.
The conservative daily notably published details of a memo written by Michael Prescott, the BBC’s external adviser, which pointed out what it considered problematic cuts in the American leader’s speech. On January 6, 2021, in Washington, shortly before the attack on the Capitol, the Capitol told its supporters: “We will march on Capitol Hill and we will salute our beloved senators and members of Congress. »
In a documentary entitled Trump, second chance?broadcast in 2024 by “Panorama”, the BBC’s flagship investigative program, this section has been edited with another quote appearing fifty minutes later in the original speech. Donald Trump was filmed saying: “We will march to the Capitol, I will be there with you. And we will fight, we will fight like hell. » Prescott also pointed out the BBC’s Arab channel’s treatment (in Arabic) of the conflict in Gaza, believing that it did not adequately take into account the suffering of Israeli citizens, and portrayed the Jewish state as an aggressor.
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