The BBC is expected to apologize on Monday for the way in which a speech by the president of the US, Donald Trump, was edited in a panorama episode. The show is one of a number of examples highlighted by Michael Prescott, a former BBC editorial extiper in a memo published by the Telegraph.
What happened?
Details of a “Dossier” compiled by Prescott were published in the Telegraph late last week. Prescott’s main criticism of Price’s memo was in an edition of Panorama, which was broadcast every week before the US election. He accused the BBC of selectively editing a Trump speech.
Prescatot also raised concerns about BBC Arabic. He claimed that a review by the BBC’s Wallyist David Grossman highlighted “systemic problems within BBC Arabic” which represented an Anti-Israel bias.
The 19-page Dossier is also reported to have criticized the BBC’s coverage of transgender issues, saying the broadcaster was “captured by a small group of [staff] The promotion of stonewall views “on gender identity issues, and that its LGBT Desk” shrinks to cover any stories that raise difficult questions”.
Who is Michael Prescott?
Prescott is a former journalist who went on to become a corporate consultant. His roles included 10 years as chief political correspondent and then political editor of the Sunday Times, and eight years as director of Corporate Affairs for BT.
He currently holds roles in communications at Hanover and the BBC Committee which oversees the BBC’s editorial guidelines and standards.
Sources told the watchdog Robbie Gibb – who served as Downing Street’s director of communications between 2017 and 2019 – the BBC’s Editorial Committee. The pair are reportedly friends. Concerns have previously been raised about the role of Gibb, who joined the BBC board when Boris Johnson was in Down Street.
What happened to Trump I-ENIT?
Prescott’s concerns were edited together from sections of the US president’s speech on January 6, 2021 for the documentary Trump: a Documentary Trump: which was broadcast by the BBC last year.
The edited clip suggested Trump told the crowd: “We’re going to walk to the Capitol and I’m going to be with you, and we’re going to fight like hell.” But the words were taken from sections of his speech nearly an hour apart. Not including a section where Trump said he wanted supporters “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”.
What was the reaction?
Prescott’s memo brought criticism of the BBC from senior conservatives. Boris Johnson told the Telegraph that the corporation’s director, Tim Davie, “must explain or resign”. He said the BBC had been “caught red-handed by many acts of left-wing bias”.
The leader of the Tory Party, Kemi Badenoch, said “heads must roll”. Johnson posted on Social Media last week: “Will the BBC be held accountable – and resign?”
Trump’s Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, described the BBC as “100% fake news” and a “propaganda machine” after the allegations emerged.
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Veteran broadcaster John Simpson said Robinson was “exact”.
British Journalist Adam Boulon, a former political editor of Sky News, told x that he thought the claims of bias on this occasion were “BS [bullshit]”, Adding It” Fake News Suggesting Donald Trump has no egg on what happened on 6 January “.