{"id":282501,"date":"2025-11-13T20:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/282501\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:47:15","slug":"my-tv-licence-fee-shouldnt-be-used-to-compensate-donald-trump-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/282501\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My TV licence fee shouldn\u2019t be used to compensate Donald Trump\u2019 | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A petition urging the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/bbc-trump-legal-action-latest-news-b2864320.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC not to compensate Donald Trump<\/a> following his $1 billon legal threat has now passed over 45,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent has spoken exclusively to Ian Fisher, who started the petition, arguing that any financial payment to Trump would be &#8220;inappropriate and against the ethos of public service broadcasting.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It demands that any compensation paid should be refunded to TV licence payers, citing public objection to such use of funds. <\/p>\n<p>Trump has given the BBC until Friday (14 November) to respond to his lawsuit threat.<\/p>\n<p>The editing of Trump\u2019s 6 January <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/speech\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">speech<\/a> in an edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/panorama\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Panorama<\/a> programme <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/bbc-tim-davie-resigns-panorama-speech-edit-panorama-b2861801.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">triggered the resignation<\/a> of director general <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/tim-davie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Davie<\/a> and head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a> Deborah Turness.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent has contacted the BBC for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A petition urging the BBC not to compensate Donald Trump following his $1 billon legal threat has now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-282501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282501","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=282501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}