Tim Davie resigns as Director-General of the BBC

That’s like saying nobody is perfect so it doesn’t matter if someone in charge is corrupt. It does matter.

The BBC not only set themselves up, very ostentatiously, as objective and neutral but also, they are the only British news outlet that can haul you up in court for not paying them even if you don’t watch their programs.

I heard Nick Robinson on Today this morning basically saying that it was a coup and terribly unfair. One of his arguments was that nobody had complained about the Trump edit at the time.

I don’t get how he doesn’t see that in fact this shows why it’s such a problem: it was edited so that the cut didn’t show (they cut away from Trump just at that point, to cover up the visual evidence of the splice) AND, crucially, people do tend to believe what they hear on the BBC. Very few people would react to a speech by Trump on the BBC by suspecting that it had been tampered with.

This is also why IRL I’ve had people tell me that there can’t really be a problem with puberty blockers because if there was evidence they were not fine, they’d have heard about it on the BBC.

(Their pro trans coverage was far more of an issue in the leaked report BTW but there seems to be an effort to make it all about one single incident with Trump. I wonder why.)

The gist of the clip was correct,he did encourage people to go and " fight". It was just badly edited.

Yep the Trump fandom are trying to latch onto this add proof of him not egging on an insurrection. So poor quality control from the BBC but it doesn't change his role in it.

For The BBC it's a Bottom Up Issue - No Person at the top could resolve the Biases of the Journalists and staff that work for the outlet.

The Overwhelming amount of staff and journalists in the Building are the types who Read the Guardian like a Hymnsheet as well as tend to be Privately Educated.

Some of the Vanguard for modern 'Progressive' ideologies. You can note in the reporting we see specific 'Lobby' groups such as LGBTQ.

As soon as the 'Neutral' news station has lobby groups it's well and truly finished as an impartial institution.

This is probably a similar situation to RTE.

Most of those references have multiple sources backing up the same statement in the article. So I'd say none of them are tbh, Wikipedia editors are pretty exhaustive on credibility of sources and they tend to catch everything, especially on controversial topics.

He should have just gotten a sick note and not taken any accountability for anything that happened under his watch - worked in our national broadcaster anyway.

By the same logic many Democrats egged on the blm riots and looting. He didn’t explicitly say to storm the capital building and details are important.

Yes it was wrong to do this - but not a billion dollars wrong.
I don’t care what happens in the USA media because they frankly deserve him - but how fcked up is the world that a sitting president can or cares to, sue the national broadcaster of another country?

This is a blatant attempt to silence the press yet again - and it’s going to impact how the BBC covers Trump into the future- whatever problems exist at the BBC should remain the UK’s and BBC’s problems - they’ve exported their problems to another country and potentially that countries legal system.

This is so fcked up on so many levels. A hands up apology statement “should” be the end of it- but I’m not at all convinced it will be- but how we’ve got to this point of apologising to foreign leaders - especially those fcking up the world - that’s the big question.

The BBC only have themselves to blame for this. I abhor Trump, everything he represents and his now lawsuit against a national broadcaster. But this was a deliberate attempt to influence a democratic election using edited footage that did not show the full facts of the speech. It should be a great worry to any British person that their national broadcaster, who is supposed to be impartial and present only facts to its people, edited footage in an attempt to influence public perception on an election in another jurisdiction. It's gravely serious.

It's possible to detest the Trump administration and simultaneously call out the BBC for what it has done. It's a very worrying precedent to have set by the BBC, it has now been portrayed to not be impartial on foreign politics.

Also Trump's success in the US with suing is largely due to him intimidating media organisations. I can't see him having that same success in the UK.