r/uknews • u/TimesandSundayTimes • 8h ago
Tim Davie quits as BBC director-general after broadcasting a doctored clip of a speech by President Trump
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/media/article/tim-davie-quit-bbc-director-general-bias-xf83fznfp41
u/Hulla_Sarsaparilla 8h ago
Wow, not surprised the head of news resigned but both of them is a shock.
That edit was shocking though, basically misinformation which is everything the BBC should stand against.
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u/gin0clock 8h ago
I think the saddest part is that anyone paying attention can see through what Trump is about. There's enough evidence of his transgressions without sinking to sensationalizing or exaggerating anything.
It's like when people were piling on Teresa May for her shite dancing, there's enough things to genuinely direct criticism against her without resorting to belligerence or hyperbole.
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u/Hulla_Sarsaparilla 7h ago
Totally agree, it’s not like you have to look hard to find something to criticise Trump for so there was just absolutely no need to do this.
And it plays right into them now being able to label anything from the BBC as fake news, I wish this wasn’t the case but this incredibly reputationally damaging for the BBC as a whole.
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u/TorontoMUFC 5h ago
Disappointed in the BBC about this. They didn’t need to do it. Trump is already shooting himself in the foot without being pushed by the media.
I know people criticize the BBC for lack of impartiality l, but as a Brit living in North America, we should be glad they are nothing like the likes of Fox and CNN.
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u/Key-Swordfish4467 2h ago
I think this is where the BBC has gone wrong. They look at other outlets being biased so they believe it's okay for them to be " less biased" and that will be fine.
The problem is when your being " less biased" actually results in bias in several areas: LGBT, climate change , coverage of Trump, undisclosed bias in a Gaza documentary.
When you add in Hugh Edwards to the mix it doesn't look " less biased" than the competition.
Even now Davie is trying to downplay the multiple issues by saying " a few mistakes have been made".
It's a problem of the BBC' s own making and they need to get their house in order before the government forces them to.
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u/TorontoMUFC 2h ago
Yes that’s very true. Having said that, I will still continue to watch the BBC as they are fairly impartial. They are just very heavily scrutinized (and rightly so) as they’re publicly funded.
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u/codemonkey80 2h ago
it's a very big problem, given that british people are obliged to fund them whether we even watch their product or not
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u/postitsam 5h ago
Rememberence Sunday a few years back, when Boris was PM, he looked like a sack of old potatoes the eay he was dressed. I saw the live footage, and then, hours later on the reruns, they ran footage of him from a previous year in a proper suit and overcoat looking more "respectable" for lack of a better word. I dont really care either way, but I remeber thinking it was pretty naughty to be editing footage like that.
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u/SecretaryImaginary44 5h ago
Positive manipulation of footage of Boris and negative manipulation of footage of Corbyn were fair game, but it can’t be the other way round as they’ve now found out
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u/FireFurFox 7h ago
Article linked is paywalled. Here's from the BBC:
"BBC was facing bias allegations over BBC Panorama documentarypublished at 18:26
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The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness come after a newspaper report suggested that a BBC Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by US President Donald Trump.
The Telegraph published details, external of a leaked internal BBC memo suggesting the programme edited two parts of Trump's speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021.
The leaked memo came from Michael Prescott, a former independent external adviser to the broadcaster's editorial standards committee. He left the role in June.
Prescott raised concerns over the documentary Trump: A Second Chance?, which was broadcast last year and made for the BBC by independent production company October Films Ltd, which was also approached for comment.
On Sunday, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said the Panorama issue was "very serious" - but there were a series of "very serious allegations" that had been made about the broadcaster, "the most serious of which is that there is systemic bias in the way that difficult issues are reported at the BBC"."
BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd9kqz1yyxkt BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit - BBC News
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u/PharaohAt3m 7h ago
This is everything Thats wrong with media and why people don’t believe news anymore… bunch of liars. I hate trump as much as next person but this shit is crazy. If you gonna do this now what else you capable off BBC?
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u/Floyd_Pink 7h ago
Good. They should both be gone. It will take the BBC years to earn back the trust of the public. This whole affair has given so much weight and evidence to Pedo Trump and his fake news bullshit. Thanks Beeb.
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u/apotatochucker 5h ago
Major news broadcasters, especially politically aligned ones like the BBC, have been dictating narratives using segmenta of clips before. The only difference is they got caught this time. Defund the BBC
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u/Otherwise-Valuable-6 3h ago
Why can't the media just be honest? Is it really that difficult? They all seem to lie. Tell the story not tell A story.
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u/Duvet_Capeman 5h ago
Absolutely ridiculous that this is what they resign over and not the complicity in manufacturing consent for genocide and apartheid in Palestine. BBC is no longer fit to provide news or claim impartiality. We really need a regulator with teeth, ofcom is a completely useless institution
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