Two important executives from BBCmanaging director Tim Davie and news division CEO Deborah Turness, have resigned following allegations of bias and news manipulation leveled at the British broadcaster.
This case appeared a few days ago, when the British newspaper Telegraph published an article revealing the contents of internal documents BBC: in the document, an external consultant, called in to assess the broadcaster’s ethical standards and editorial guidelines, has discovered critical issues in the coverage of several news stories. Therefore, he has referred the matter to management, but according to his statement and the reconstruction TelegraphHaven’t received any response yet.
In particular consultant, Michael Prescott, a former journalist, referred to the program’s historic approach BBC “Panorama” has edited United States President Donald Trump’s speech during the attack on Congress in January 2021: by cutting out much of the speech, editors had Trump utter the words “We’re going to the Capitol, and I’m going to be there with you. And we’re going to fight, we’re going to fight like hell.”
In fact, more than 50 minutes passed between “I’ll be right there with you” and “we’ll fight like hell,” during which Trump said other things, and the urge to attack Congress was not as immediate and obvious as the cuts suggest. BBC. Prescott also found critical issues in coverage of the war in the Gaza Strip and issues related to trans people. His report was also submitted to the parliamentary commission dealing with the media: representatives of BBC is expected to appear before this committee on Monday to respond to criticism arising from the Prescott report.
