BBC: BBC director general and News CEO resign over Trump documentary edit
The BBC’s director general Tim Davie and head of News Deborah Turness have resigned following criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by Donald Trump.
The Telegraph published details of a leaked internal BBC memo on Monday that suggested the Panorama programme edited two parts of the US president’s speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riot of January 2021.
This dishonest BBC documentary aired in October, just prior to the 2024 election. A foreign country tried to influence who was elected as our president.
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