Tim Davie’s and Deborah Turness’s resignations come off the back of internal concerns over the edit of a Donald Trump speech in an episode of the BBC’s Panorama programme.<\/p>\n
The Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday that a memo by a former external adviser to the BBC’s editorial standards committee raised the issue, as well as other concerns about impartiality, in the summer.<\/p>\n
The concerns regard clips spliced together of the US president’s speech on January 6 2021. The edit was part of the documentary Trump: A Second Chance? broadcast, which was broadcast by the BBC before last year’s US elections.<\/p>\n
The edit makes it appear he told supporters he was going to walk to the US Capitol with them to “fight like hell”, suggesting that he was encouraging violence.<\/p>\n
Critics said that the way the speech was edited for a BBC documentary was misleading and cut out a section where Trump said that he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The corporation is expected to apologise on Monday over the impartiality concerns.<\/p>\n
‘Panorama is causing damage to BBC’<\/p>\n
Turness explicitly referenced the documentary edit in her resignation note (see our post at 6.41pm).<\/p>\n
She wrote: “The ongoing controversy around the Panorama on President Trump has reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC \u2013 an institution that I love.<\/p>\n
“As the CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, the buck stops with me – and I took the decision to offer my resignation to the Director-General last night.<\/p>\n
“In public life leaders need to be fully accountable, and that is why I am stepping down.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Davie’s and Deborah Turness’s resignations come off the back of internal concerns over the edit of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-273972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}