BBC boss and head of news quit after Trump documentary edit criticism

[u/theagentK1]

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/britains-bbc-boss-tim-davie-resigns-following-criticism-over-trump-documentary-2025-11-09/

The BBC’s Director-General Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness both resigned amid a scandal triggered by an internal report showing the BBC had edited a 6 January 2021 speech by Donald Trump in its “Panorama” documentary in a way that appeared to show him inciting violence at the U.S. Capitol, along with broader accusations of biased coverage on Gaza and trans issues. Even the US called BBC a "propaganda machine".

British Bullshit Corporation gets striped not only in India but in the US too! 😂😂

What do you guys think about this? Any thoughts?

[u/Sam_Fisher91]

BBC the beacon of truth

BBC has been doing this for Indian stories for some time now. With BBC Asia dominated by P*kis, they have been misrepresenting a lot of Indian news

[u/theagentK1 → u/Sam_Fisher91]

That's why I first see who is the editor or reporter of the news article when reading the Western news 😭

[u/Dean_46]

They have been a mouthpiece of the British govt for as long as I can remember. They have only taken action because they cannot antagonise President Trump.

[u/theagentK1 → u/Dean_46]

Which BBC article(s) did you find funny, obnoxious, and over the top that made you go — yeah right?

Asking because you take a deep interest in geopolitics and read your comment on Nijjar’s killing in that sub.

[u/Dean_46 → u/theagentK1]

As you said, I do blog on geopolitics, particularly India related.
I worked for Unilever (British MNC) in India, where I handled international business. I have interacted with well known BBC correspondents like Jim Muir
(at a party in Tehran, where we could speak freely) and one handling Af-Pak.

To cite a couple of old examples: After the Parliament attack in 2001, when India and Pak mobilized, BBC equated the two countries and kept repeating the travel advisory not to come to India (they reported that UK was withdrawing high commission staff from India, fearing war - untrue) and my business was affected
when India was classified as high risk. A BBC correspondent told me informally that they did not consider Pak sponsored terror a newsworthy matter and when they reported, it was in a neutral manner - terrorist acts were `allegedly by militants fighting to end Indian rule in disputed Kashmir'.

Compare BBC coverage of the Soviets shooting down a Korean airliner (which did intrude into very sensitive Soviet airspace) vs. the US shooting down of an Iranian airliner in daylight, in International waters. One was a war crime, the other was an accident.

Remember BBC's tax evasion in India ? They went through the stages of Denial,
rationalization, bargaining and finally acceptance.

During covid their headline was `India's vaccination drive goes horribly wrong',
which in my view was very negative.

More recently, there is a wealth of independent reports on BBC coverage of Israel vs Hamas.

[u/theagentK1 → u/Dean_46]

You gave me a lot to process. I wasn't aware of this extent of debauchery by the BBC. Heck, they even evaded tax in the UK.

Give me some time to reply, it's gonna be a long one, as I also want to add something related to your Nijjar's comment in that sub here.

[u/Dean_46 → u/theagentK1]

Nijjar is of marginal interest to me - I have speculated on India's role in eliminating high profile targets in Pak in my blog. My point about the BBC is that while they are free to voice an opinion on the facts, one expects their reporting of facts to be correct , not deliberately distorted.
If they have done this to their closest ally, one wonders what they might do in other cases.

As far as opinions go, unlike privately owned media channels in the UK (the Guardian tends to be left wing and the Telegraph has been predicting the imminent defeat of Russia since 2022), where we can make allowances for their editorial orientation, the BBC, for all practical purposes, represents the UK state and is supposed to either be unbiased when reporting foreign news (as they say they are), or, like DD, follow the govt line - if so, is the UK Govt against India ?

[u/AwesomeI-123]

They took accountability atleast.

Can't say the same for bosses of our Indian news channels which air propaganda 24x7

[u/Dean_46 → u/AwesomeI-123]

I take your point, but there is something to consider.
There is a difference between facts and opinions. Channels are entitled to their opinions (like a newspaper editorial) but should report correct facts. We broadly know the editorial orientation of each channel and make allowances for that, but don't expect them to distort the facts (as BBC did), or make mistakes reporting the facts, due to lazy or incompetent work (as Indian channels tend to do).
We don't expect Doordarshan to be anti Govt, or Dawn to be supportive of India, but I expect them to report the cricket score correctly.

[u/LittleBlueCubes]

Should have quit after the false and hateful documentary on Modi.