Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC and welcomed the resignations of two senior figures who came under fire with a wrongful editing of a Trump speech.
The reaction to the resignations of the BBC Director General, Tim Davie, and News CEO, Deborah Treed, who is the president of Teloster, which was published this month A leaked internal report Through a former standard of the BBC that mediates the failures of the broadcaster’s coverage, including transgender issues, Gaza and editing a trumpet rebellion in the Capitol.
“Thanks to the Telegraph for exposing these corrupt ‘journalists.’ These are unreal people trying to step on the scales in the presidential election.
After Davie was released, the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, was also celebrated Post X His speech on Saturday in the Telegraph, which he captioned “shot” and the BBC article announcing Davie’s resignation, captioned “Chaser”.
On Saturday Leavitt described the BBC in the Telegraph as “100% fake news” and the BBC’s trips “in trips that are “forced to the feet of a leftist propaganda machine”.
The independent and publicly funded BBC has been under increasing pressure for years. Critics of the meeting accused it of a liberal bias, while critics on the left expressed dismay at the “culture wars” on issues such as race, sex and gender.
A tense and unequal environment leaves BBC journalists feeling uneasy when reporting on conflicting issues, especially Israel’s bombing of Gaza.
At home and abroad, Trump has maintained a consistently antagonistic relationship with many major news organizations, often labeling the outlets as “the enemy of the people”. This strategy includes news organizations, mocks press credentials for journalists, and pressures media companies and platforms.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists declared that “Press Freedom is no longer a given in the United States”, that the policies of the Trump administration could take decades to fix.
The leaked BBC report said the current affairs documentary Paag-A Parorama had “completely misled” viewers by examining two sides of Trump’s speech. The panorama edit combines excerpts from the sections given in an hour, combining a line about the walk to the Capitol in “Fight Like Hell”.
The BBC’s chairman, Samir Shah, later on Monday apologized for editing Trump’s speech, calling it an “error of judgement”.
In fact, Trump gave contradictory advice that day to supporters, whom he intended to gather in the capital as part of his efforts to thwart false claims of widespread fraud. The US president was later impeached for “incitement to instrumentality” related to the storming of the Capitol by rioters, but he was released by the Senate after the Republicans raised him.