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Trump’s view that mainstream media is biased against him is not newpublished at 21:45 GMT<\/p>\nTrump’s view that mainstream media is biased against him is not newpublished at 21:45 GMT<\/p>\n
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Anthony Zurcher
North America correspondent<\/p>\n
This is the first time Donald Trump has commented on the controversy surrounding the 2024 Panorama documentary on his re-election bid. <\/p>\n
Taking to Truth Social to share his views on the resignation of the BBC bosses, the president calls BBC Director-General Tim Davie and his leadership team \u201cvery dishonest people\u201d. And he accuses the BBC of trying to \u201cstep on the scales of a presidential election\u201d. <\/p>\n
The Panorama documentary had edited portions of Trump\u2019s 6 January, 2021, speech in a way that made it appear the president had explicitly called for his supporters to attack the US Capitol, where Congress was certifying Joe Biden\u2019s presidential victory.<\/p>\n
Davie\u2019s departure, along with CEO of BBC News Deborah Turness, came primarily as a result of growing pressure from within the UK, but the White House is also taking some credit for the move.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the BBC \u201c100% fake news\u201d and a \u201cpropaganda machine\u201d. On Sunday, she took to X to draw a direct line from Trump \u201dgoing to war\u201d with the BBC and the resignations.<\/p>\n
Trump and senior administration officials have frequently characterised the mainstream news media as biased against them \u2013 a sentiment that stretches back to the president\u2019s first national campaign in 2015. <\/p>\n
The White House has often celebrated what it views as instances when media outlets have faced negative consequences for its news coverage.<\/p>\n
In June, Leavitt accused the BBC of misreporting, and then backing away from, its coverage of an attack at a Gaza refugee camp. The BBC stood by its reporting of what it said was a \u201cfast-moving news story\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump’s view that mainstream media is biased against him is not newpublished at 21:45 GMT 21:45 GMT Anthony…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-274138","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\/274138","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=274138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}