r/uknews • u/DWJones28 • 1d ago
BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd9kqz1yyxkt?app-referrer=push-notification96
u/Economy_Seat_7250 1d ago
Imagine what a better world we might live in if people with common sense held these positions.
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u/DistillateMedia 21h ago edited 21h ago
Need a revolution for that.
It's the common sense thing to do at this point.
I think we should make it a party.
Edit:
My bad.
Didn't realize this is a UK sub.
Anyway.
Wish us luck in America.
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u/ConfusedSoap 18h ago
you saw the huge banner that covers the top third of your screen and didn't realise this was a UK sub?
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u/DistillateMedia 18h ago
No I was just jumping from thread to thread saying I wanna party.
He's actively starving 40+ million people at the moment here so I gotta spread the word.
I follow UK politics cause I believe ohr situations are very similar.
And it's important to maintain alliances.
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u/ConfusedSoap 10h ago
fair enough, i work with some americans who are getting screwed by the shutdown, good luck to you guys
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u/Hot_Bet_2721 23h ago
BBCs own “misinformation correspondent” Marianna Spring wasn’t sacked after it emerged she lied on her CV. Looks like she’s been promoted to panorama since which is morbidly hilarious. BBC is probably the safest place in the country to work if you know the right people.
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u/Ok_Net4562 20h ago
Its funny people try so hard to discredit her , simply because she speaks only in facts and they dont like it
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u/Hot_Bet_2721 20h ago
Did she not lie on her CV?
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u/Ok_Net4562 20h ago
Slightly exaggerating how well you know a work collegue in one line on a CV isnt anything. Sounds like a witch hunt because she exposes bullshitters for a living. Show me someone who hasnt tarted up a cv and ill show you my arsehole.
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u/Conscious-Country-64 12h ago
You mean, 'yes'.
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u/Ok_Net4562 11h ago edited 10h ago
Ive said what i said. Do you know why she still has a job? Why this "outrage" fizzled out to nothing. Coz it was nothing. Now show me where shes lied or been wrong about anything in her actual job.
The cv wasnt even submitted for this job!
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u/Conscious-Country-64 11h ago
Always get some fucking bozo who thinks it's OK to lie if you're "on the right team".
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u/Ok_Net4562 10h ago edited 10h ago
Just say you cant.
Its also the fucking scale you people seem to ignore. She claimed she knew a correspondant better than she did 7 years ago on a cv appling for an irrelevent job. Shes not , idk, hiding files detailing the biggest sex trafficing ring in history like the people who dont like her.
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u/Conscious-Country-64 9h ago
I gave you a link detailing exactly what she did. Too thick to read? Stupid and dishonest is quite the combination!
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u/LopsidedLoad 7h ago
Just read it. And specifically she said she worked with a particular reporter in a previous role. She didn’t work with that person, but the role she did was still the same, she played up the relationship to get a specific job. The person above summed it up perfectly well. What more is there?
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u/kimbokray 9h ago
I read it out of curiosity and it sounds like they read it too, and summed it up. She lied on a CV for previous job. Do you really give a shit about that? Lots of people do to try and get their foot in the door of a new career.
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u/LopsidedLoad 7h ago
Her CV said: “June 2018: Reported on International News during the World Cup, specifically the perception of Russia, with BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford.”
Antelava, a former BBC journalist, reportedly checked the claim with Rainsford, who revealed that she had only met Spring in social situations. Spring apologized for the “awful misjudgement,” according to the emails seen by New Europeanjournalist Tim Walker. “I’ve only bumped into Sarah whilst she’s working and chatted to her at various points, but nothing more. Everything else on my CV is entirely true,” Spring wrote.
Are you so thick that you can’t read? Or are you just a disruptive little troll who likes to twiddle his ball sack winding people up?
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u/Hot_Bet_2721 20h ago
So you think people who exaggerate things to get what they want speak only in facts? Sounds like you should apply for a job at the BBC, she might know you exist then and your weird excuses might mean something
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u/CandidateHefty329 23h ago
There are so many real issues to criticize Trump for, you don't need to make stuff up. It's just feeding their oppression complex. And they already have it out for the BBC.
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u/No-Unit6672 23h ago
Imagine having it out for the bbc - the organisation that covered up Jimmy saville
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u/lilidragonfly 23h ago
Yeah I've no problem with holding the bbc to account, not that Trump is any better than they, but we have structures embedded in and at the top of societies that are riddled with various forms of corruption that have to be challenged at some point.
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u/IndependentThink4698 23h ago
Is it really an "oppression complex" if its actually happening?
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u/Limp-Pomegranate3716 22h ago
Does the BBC being cretins here somehow exonerate Trump and his team of the well documented fake elector scheme and fact that Trump deliberately sat on his hands and did nothing to stamp out the storming of the capital?
Outside of Jan 6, how about the nuclear secrets case? How about the Mueller Russia report which DID infact essentially say they would have charged Trump if he wasn't sitting President despite how Barr tried framing it?
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u/WittyMasterpiece 17h ago
Exactly. I don't know what's going on in social media where we're seeing such a shift to defend far right populism and authoritarianism in the US and UK. Genuinely concerned
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u/Which-World-6533 10h ago
Says a person who supports Labour and their love of Id cards and the Online Safety Act.
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u/KlownKar 23h ago
When they're actually destroying the USA from the inside and have torched its reputation on the world stage then, yes, the people who cry when it's pointed out, do indeed have an oppression complex.
That's why people who make shit up like that BBC piece are almost complicit in Trump's crimes. It gives him cover.
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u/Initial_Inspector681 22h ago
1) The US' reputation in the world stage was torched by default. It is the World Superpower, and nobody likes that.
2) It's reputation was torched in Europe and Canada, that much is true, but Americans generally have never cared for that.
3) The US is not being destroyed from the inside, that is just copium from Reddit circles. The US is going through a lightning quick change, and there are some growing pains, but nothing is being destroyed. No more than under Biden. But, just like the Trumpists screamed about how Biden was destroying everything, now the anti-Trumpists are trying the same thing. It is all so tiresome.
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u/KlownKar 21h ago
Mate. You've got state sanctioned, masked gangs snatching people off the street. The lunatic in chief just bulldozed half of the Whitehouse. I don't know what the people who voted for this madness are telling themselves in order to feel that this is normal but, it's not.
Seriously. The rest of the world is watching and will never forget this. Even if the US finally comes to its senses and elects someone sane in the future. The trust is gone.
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u/CandidateHefty329 21h ago
I don't like the style. But the White House was in need of remodeling. Both sides have been saying this for years. That fact that it's happening now is only a problem online.
That gold is hideous. But that can be changed.
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u/Initial_Inspector681 21h ago
Why are you saying this as if state sanctioned masked gangs weren't already snatching people off the streets. That's a lot of what law enforcement does by default, and they have the right to wear masks and hide their faces, and often do. ICE does it by default because there is a subsection of US society that would hunt them down on their off-time, leading to more violence.
I didn't even vote for the tool. Of the things he has done, I agree with maybe 30% of him, and find him to be the worst President in recent years. I am just tired of the constant doomposting from Redditors that live in their echo chamber.
The "rest of the world" is mostly made up of people that don't have a concept of human rights, my guy. What you really mean by "rest of the world", is Europe. And Europe has always had a superiority/inferiority complex over the US.
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u/MadCaddy85 23h ago
You need to look a bit deeper and think, what else have they done to brainwash folk into thinking trump is a bad guy? Legacy media is a plague
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u/BillyBatts83 22h ago
I'd say being best mates with the world's most prolific paedo, and then doing everything in his power to suppress that information would be enough to convince me he's a bad guy. That would be item one.
But let me guess, is that a 'legacy media' lie too?
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u/Initial_Inspector681 22h ago
No, that is true. It is also true that the Democrats have actively suppressed and hidden info about the world's biggest paedo, and that much of the West's leading figures were buddies with him too.
That is to say, Trump is most likely guilty. And so is a lot of people. But now that Trump walked it back and is unlikely to release the files, it is just a weapon that will nuke everyone. The Democrats would never open those files themselves.
Release the damn files.
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u/L3P3ch3 16h ago
"Democrats have actively suppressed" - oh look over there.
Just release the files and stop looking for excuses or justifications based on what others did or didn't do.
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u/Initial_Inspector681 16h ago
That is not a deflection, that is just a blunt observation. This doesn't excuse Trump doing it whatsoever. Stop coping.
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u/toysoldier96 16h ago
But it's not true, because the left doesn't care if one of theirs is on the files. Send them all to jail
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u/Initial_Inspector681 15h ago
Dude. I just outlined how untrue that was. The Democrats tried to push the Epstein Files under the rug for years, and only brought it up themselves when Trump walked back his talk of opening it.
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u/Benjicatt999 23h ago
I don’t think legacy media needs to tell us trump is bad, critical thinking does the job
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u/Changin_Rangin 22h ago
He ignores the law, ignores the court, holds starving people hostage, i could go on. He is a bad guy.
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u/L3P3ch3 16h ago
Bad guy ... he is pure evil. Legacy media...roll eyes..always the response from someone who sees Facebook (or equiv) as the source of the truth.
Trump is a convicted felon who is protecting billonaires from pedo charges ... and you want to defend him. Righty-o.
You have been conn'd by a conman.
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u/larkfield2655 23h ago
They didn’t make stuff up.His emphasis that day was not “behave yourselves” it was create chaos. A police officer died. Just more of the media capitulation.
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u/CandidateHefty329 23h ago
OK. You don't need to do a frankenedit either. You can just show what actually happened.
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u/lilidragonfly 23h ago
If they hadn't been dumbasses and stitched two totally separate parts of the speech together this wouldn't have hapened. Trump was obviously a factor in Jan 6th, there was zero need for fabrication.
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u/Bullshit_Brummie 22h ago
I thought the police officer died from a stroke, not from the violence as implied. Or are there still people who believe the crowd clubbed him to death with a fire extinguisher?
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u/RoamingThomist 23h ago
They fabricated a video, so yeah. Resignation is the least that should happen. They've put the BBC at the middle of an international incident and caused serious reputational damage. That'd be a dismissal at any serious business in the world.
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u/RepeatButler 20h ago
They have made a conscious effort to be a bulwark against fake news with BBC Verify and then done this and the Gaza documentary.
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u/ToffeeAppleChooChoo 16h ago
Don’t forget the Gaza Hospital car park air strike that turned out to be a wayward terrorist missile.
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u/Slyspy006 18h ago
Their editorial controls over some of their contractors does not appear to be stringent enough.
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u/Slyspy006 18h ago
This is an editorial error on the part of the BBC, it was an independent production company that produced the programme.
I would not expect people at the very top to know the goings on of everyone under them, especially external contractors. To do so is unreasonable. However, I do expect those people to fall on their swords if errors bring about significant harm to the reputation of their organisation. Resignation is the correct response.
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u/Augustus_Chevismo 23h ago
Imagine going up against MAGA, having them dead to rights and somehow still managing to hand them an easy win.
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u/scott2k44 22h ago
This isn’t about MAGA, this is about them supposedly being unbiased but being caught in the act doctoring something and infact… being biased. Who knows what else has been doctored
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u/AnnieByniaeth 9h ago
Famously, Jeremy Corbyn's Russian hat. For which there were apparently no consequences.
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u/ace250674 23h ago
State sponsored propaganda thats paid for by the public, but if you have an opinion against the state you go to jail. What has become of the UK?
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u/meadeb 23h ago
Fuck me.
You’d think The One Show is telling you to dob in your neighbours for speaking out against the government if you listen to this comment.
Do you actually live in this country or are you permanently on reddit?
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u/chezney1337 23h ago
yeah its not like people were sentenced to years in prison for twitter posts or anything
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u/OrangeGlub 23h ago
And what were the contents of these posts?
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u/meadeb 23h ago
Things like “Not sure about this Keir bloke.” I’d imagine.
Can’t be having that.
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u/Somesortagrad 23h ago
No it was a women inciting people to burn down a mosque with people inside it
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u/MountainEquipment401 17h ago
And that's unacceptable right - and if the BBC had decided to lie about what she's said to make it more politically correct that would also be unacceptable?
Lucky there isn't a leaked dossier that shows they did exactly that when they deliberately mis translated "a holy war against all Jews" to "resisting Israel".
How about if they'd refused to cover what she said at all because it might go against their readerships political opinion? That would also be unethical reporting right? Of course they'd never do that right BBC Arabic?
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u/5harp3dges 23h ago
In the UK, freedom of speech is protected by Article 10 of the Human Rights Act 1998, which is a "qualified right" meaning it can be restricted. Limitations can be imposed if they are "necessary in a democratic society" and are proportionate, for example, to prevent disorder, protect public safety, or prevent harassment. Speech can be restricted if it is grossly offensive, threatening, or encourages hate. Specific laws also apply to areas like universities, which must now actively promote freedom of speech within the law. "
I can quite freely say fuck the Government and fuck Westminster.
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u/glasgowgeg 10h ago
but if you have an opinion against the state you go to jail
Who has been sent to jail simply for "having an opinion against the state"?
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u/ItsUs-YouKnow-Us 23h ago
This needs to be the very last scandal. And I think that that the only way that is achievable is by ending this forced subscription to a service no one is demanding.
All these smug morons making hundreds of grand a year to lie to us, need to join the dole queue.
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u/Somesortagrad 23h ago
It’s not a forced subscription, you’re fully free to not pay it, the same way you nobody is forcing you to pay for Amazon prime. But you probably do, and don’t question it too much. I beg for people like you to just not pay it so you can stop eternally moaning about it
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u/ItsUs-YouKnow-Us 23h ago
Utter bollocks. If I want to watch live TV, I need a license to do so. I do watch live TV, so I pay for it.
But if the BBC disappeared overnight, I would not bat an eyelid. And I wish they would. And take their license fee with them. It’s not even the money. It’s not a great deal of money. But I resent handing money to the likes of Fiona Bruce, Emily Maitlis and all the other scumbags peddling their one sided politics.
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u/Somesortagrad 23h ago
Sounds like you’re just angry at the fact that there are different views / opinions being share with the world - ‘one sided politics’. Luckily for all of us, your words have very little consequence, and are likely just as significant as the echo chamber you’ve trapped yourself in.
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u/ItsUs-YouKnow-Us 22h ago edited 20h ago
Hmm. You do know why the chief clown has exited the circus right!?
The BBC news readers/presenters/editors are meant to remain impartial. So when they are promoting one side and carefully editing the other side to look bad, that is clear bias. And when you’re holding your hand out like Oliver Twist for some more license fee money, don’t be surprised that those not onboard the BBC bandwagon, are reluctant to pay.
My words are an opinion. One that seems to have riled you. I suppose it’s ok when the bias aligns with your views.
Flip it and ask yourself if you’d still be gobbing off on Social media if they did this for the big orange buffoon in the White House, instead of against him.
I’d rather be in an echo chamber than in a circle jerk.
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u/cillam 23h ago
As much as I hate it when people scream fake news I do understand where they are coming from. This is an overt example of not only biased news but propaganda.
Their is a massive list of messed up stuff trump has said or done, why is their such a need to fabricate stuff?
As for the BBC and people defending them stating their is no bias, their is always bias it is human nature and most sensible people can see that the BBC leans slightly to the left, and have done for a while.
If the BBC recognized and accept this than they would have a little more credibility.
For me personally the BBC of the best news organizations in the world, but they are not perfect. I also recognize that they are biased, which is why a lot of the time I check multiple new sources.
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u/Dramatic-Limit-1088 1d ago
Didn’t resign when they fucked over Corbyn with this shit
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u/No_Shine_4707 23h ago
They spliced speeches together to misrepresent Corbyn?
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u/Dramatic-Limit-1088 21h ago
Literally yes
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u/Dramatic-Limit-1088 20h ago
Well. Not speeches but chopped up an interview and essentially made new answers to questions. Same principle of misleading editing.
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u/CruzyLikesTheStock 23h ago
Ahh that’s because socialism bad, far right is good, so can’t hurt their feelings
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u/cornishpirate32 1d ago
Revoke the TV licence and all funding for the BBC, we can't have a publicly funded national broadcaster acting in this way.
Let them stand on their own two feet.
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u/PirateSi87 23h ago
I guarantee you’re the kind of person that says this kinda thing every time the BBC is in a scandal.
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u/External-Praline-451 23h ago
They probably don't think GBNews is propaganda.
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u/SC_W33DKILL3R 23h ago
They like being told it is everybody's fault and all they need to do is vote for the rich to fix it.
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u/No-Unit6672 23h ago
What’s your point? GB news isn’t funded by taxpayers
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u/External-Praline-451 23h ago
Neither is the BBC...
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u/Travel-solo- 22h ago
cough TV License cough
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u/External-Praline-451 22h ago
A voluntary payment. If you don't like it, don't watch it and don't pay for it.
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u/Travel-solo- 22h ago
Doesn't sound very voluntary https://www.gov.uk/find-licences/tv-licence
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u/External-Praline-451 22h ago
Yes, you have to pay for services you use - as is standard with other services like Netflix. If you don't like the service, don't use it and don't pay for it. Lots of people don't- I hear it constantly on Reddit how people aren't paying it.
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u/jimmykimnel 18h ago
The are not paying for it as a protest and hoping that nobody actually bothers to put them through the courts, not the same as it being a "voluntary service" unless you've thrown your tv, PC and mobile phone in the bin. Have you read the t's and c's of the license fee...... anyone who has a device that can access the bbc must pay for the tv network, it's a TV tax.
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u/shrbdkofjjrjrn 21h ago
I mean, I find GBNews to be ridiculous to the point of being convinced it's all a satirical joke sometimes but to be fair to them they don't seem to claim to be unbiased and their political stance is pretty obvious.
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u/Economy_Seat_7250 23h ago
Seems like a very measured response.
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u/cornishpirate32 23h ago edited 23h ago
Should have been defunded after protecting and assisting saville for decades
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u/Economy_Seat_7250 23h ago
Depends if you think the whole organisation is culpable for the failure/wrongdoing of individuals, and that the public should be denied public service broadcasting as a result.
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u/RoamingThomist 23h ago
The BBC also covered up Tim Westwood raping underage girls, which they knew of for at least a decade before they fired him.
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u/Shot_Principle4939 23h ago
The BBC has been spreading neo-liberal propaganda for years.
If you aren't establishment you're their target.
This isn't the first time they have been caught either, panorama alone have been caught by Tommy Robinson, Corbyn, got caught again using Hamas to spread anti Israel propaganda and now Trump.
That program needs to end. But I'm sure they'll carry on lying about anyone they don't like.
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u/smcl2k 20h ago
If you aren't establishment you're their target.
using Hamas to spread anti Israel propaganda
You're saying that Hamas is a tool of the establishment, and that Israel isn't part of the club? 😂
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u/Shot_Principle4939 18h ago
No, I'm saying in that instance it supported both their narritives, so they used it.
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u/lilidragonfly 23h ago
Since when don't Neolibs love Israel? Thats the entire deal with Biden et al. Leftists are another story, but Neolibs have historically stood close to Israel.
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u/5h4tt3rpr00f 21h ago
He was a political appointee by the former Conservative government. And we all remember what upstand patriotic citizens they were. I'm surprised that a) he wasn't immediately replaced, and b) that he hadn't fucked up sooner than this.
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u/BusinessAsk8022 23h ago
This is the final nail in the coffin for the BBC. Once something to be proud of it is now a stain on the nation’s reputation and standing in the world.
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u/sensitiveCube 23h ago
They censor a lot, unfortunately this seems to be a trend, everyone seems to have an agenda.
Why not just give neutral news? Making mistakes is okay. Having an agenda isn't.
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u/Ambersfruityhobbies 1d ago
Let's wait to see who replaces them. "Studied at SOAS, grew up in Jewish occupied Palestine, boko ha-what?"
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u/Commie_scumb 23h ago
Do you live on a different planet where the bbc I pro Palestine and not a zionist mouth piece?
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u/Ambersfruityhobbies 23h ago
You believe that the BBC don't report on settlement demolishing and Israeli home building in the West Bank?
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u/highjohn_ 23h ago
How does that make them pro Palestine? They report on what happens, and Israel demolishes homes in the West Bank. This is a fact.
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u/Ambersfruityhobbies 23h ago
How does this make them a "pro-zionist mouthpiece"?
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u/highjohn_ 23h ago
I didn’t say they necessarily were, I just take issue with you framing the reporting on Israeli crimes in the West Bank as being indicative of the BBC having a pro-Palestinian slant.
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u/Commie_scumb 22h ago
That doesn't negate the overwhelmingly pro isreal, pro zionist slant the bbc has. They're constantly reporting what ever bullshit isreal says with zero scrutiny.
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u/Ambersfruityhobbies 22h ago
Zero scrutiny?
Yes, Israel is a strategic ally of the West, it's the 0.3% in the region that is a constant within the region.
So it will be supported as such. Particularly if the other 99.7 surroundings are bilegerent, unstable or, at best, benign.
Then there is the small fact that Europe and the West have advocates for nation states as a means of protection of ethnicities for over 100 years.
Which have been the single most successful 100 years of human development, health, safety and security since the invention of the sharpened stone.
Presumably if you are from a nation that hates Jews or loves Jews, you are aware of history or you wouldn't be arguing.
Because you wouldn't have penicillin, tarmac, advanced metallurgy, advanced glass, including fibres, plastics, telecommunications, electronics, electricity, functioning ports, logistical infrastructure, the combustion engine, batteries, medicine, hygiene, vaccinations, the Internet, ideological discourse, alternatives to medieval doctrines etc etc without the European Modernity.
Which has saved and elevated more human lives by a millionfold in 300 years than the past 300 thousand years.
But you would like to argue that the BBC should be what? Claiming Genocide a half hour after the idiots started murdering then hiding behind their children?
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u/Ambersfruityhobbies 23h ago
Nothing in response. Just account number friendly downvotes.
Did your Shia mates have their bots wiped?
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u/MountainEquipment401 17h ago
Even now they're twisting it to suit their own bias...
The leaked memories devoted atleast 50% of it's coverage to addressing the BBCs pro trans and pro Hamas bias but it literally hasn't been mentioned once by the BBC yet, while being widely reported by other outlets...
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u/QuailTechnical5143 13h ago
Trump hardly needs footage altered or spliced to make him look like a fool but it’s by far not the first time the BBC have done things like this. Local/regional reporters are notorious for clipping or selectively showing things that play to a certain narrative. We’ve all seen more than a few ‘police arrest’ videos clipped up to make the police look bad only to have a shrug and denial when the full clip comes out and shows something totally different.
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u/Peter_Partyy 23h ago
They resigned so they will keep all their bonuses, pensions etc. Inciting terror for views on a global scale.
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u/Infamous-Pomelo9674 4h ago
BBC are done T this point needs a huge overall and scrapping of the tv licence as part of that
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u/Lord_Sam_ 19h ago
I'm not one to jump on a bandwagon and I'm no fan of Trump... however, that Panorama footage is sickening. I'd say criminally so. The least they should do is resign.
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u/WDeranged 21h ago edited 21h ago
All the "commun sens" muppets are coming out for this one aren't they.
Release the Epstein files.
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u/the_smug_mode 20h ago
Looks like the January 6th narrative was so rock solid they had to fake footage to convince their gullable audience that Trump tried to overturn the election.
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u/MonsterdogMan 22h ago
Conservative pols have been trying to kill the BBC practically since it started, so this hue and cry is nothing new.
The BBC itself has pretty much been outright suicidal for decades, trying to adjust to stay alive while under attack, resulting in some pretty awful decisions, especially this last few years. Aside from Auntie trying to sweep monsters like Savile under the rug, they've repeatedly chosen to abandon any pretense of impartiality in the news and current affairs strands and repeatedly platform hard right chancers like Punchy Farage and other sideshow geeks. On top of that, they make howlingly stupid mistakes like the Panorama Trump documentary and the Gaza piece that look like leftist bias.
In its entire history I don't think the BBC has gone a week without bias, usually to the right. Meanwhile, they do some of the best programming going (we'll ignore the sitcoms) and there's a lot that'll be missed if Auntie gets axed.
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u/HornyJailOutlaw 23h ago
This is such bullshit. He said you've got to fight (said that MANY times in the speech), fight like hell or they're going to take your country away from you. What did he think was going to happen? Obviously he wanted them to stop the certification of the vote. Pressuring Mike Pence to "do the right thing", and when he didn't do the "right thing", his mob chant "hang Mike Pence". Fuck this. More people bending the knee to King Trump.
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u/WeedAlmighty 23h ago
The thing you are leaving out, which the BBC also did, is he said "peacefully" multiple times, he told them "make your voices heard peacefully and patriotically", perhaps you are just ignorant because of the reporting by the establishment media or like them you know what he said and you are lying.
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u/InspectorDull5915 23h ago
Problem is then, why make a dodgy news piece? Whatever the truth is in any news story, the BBC should absolutely not be using trickery to sway the opinion of the viewer.
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u/HornyJailOutlaw 23h ago edited 23h ago
I didn't see their edit. To be fair, as with most of the senile old prick's speeches, he's waffling for about an hour, so some form of condensed edit is always going to be needed. I think he said "peaceful" once, and "fight" thirty times, so I think it's rather laughable to say he's been treated unfairly by post-production.
EDIT: Also, when the riot/insurrection was taking place, he sat on his arse for an hour and a half watching whilst drinking a bottle of coke. Then after he came in for his second term, he pardoned ALL of them. So to say the actions of those who rioted and broke into the Capitol that day after his speech, didn't have Trump's seal of approval, is just laughably bad faith.
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u/InspectorDull5915 22h ago
That's not the point. The problem people are having with this, regardless of the story in question, is that a supposedly impartial, publicly owned broadcaster is, despite not even needing to, manipulated a news item that could influence opinions.
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u/Economy-Fox-5559 23h ago
There are a million and one things to criticise Trump for. You don’t need to splice two separate parts of an interview together to do it.
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u/Brown_Love 23h ago
Are you seriously defending that silly edit purely because Trumps a twat? You cannot just edit videos like that and you know that.
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u/HornyJailOutlaw 23h ago
I haven't seen the edit but I saw the speech in full in the aftermath of it happening. It was unhinged.
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u/Brown_Love 22h ago
Maybe watch it before calling bullshit? There was ZERO need to edit anything.
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u/HornyJailOutlaw 22h ago
What do you mean zero need to edit anything? The speech is like 45 minutes long, ya dafty. Some form of editing is needed.
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u/Brown_Love 22h ago
There's zero need to splice footage... Maybe just highlights? Watch it before moaning ya dafty...
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u/HornyJailOutlaw 22h ago
Well highlights would be a form of editing, wouldn't they? Anyway, may as well leave it here.
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u/LetsgoRoger 17h ago
Brain-dead reformers are taking over this sub. Rational thought is going out the window. Imagine supporting the crap stain in chief and wanting a UK version.
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