BBC apologizes to Trump for edited report but denies compensation amid ongoing controversy.
The BBC has issued an apology to President Trump for its dishonestly edited report on January 6, but says it won’t be offering him any compensation.
The BBC has apologised to US President Donald Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced parts of his 6 January 2021 speech together, but rejected his demands for compensation.
The corporation said the edit had given „the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action“ and said it would not show the 2024 programme again.
Lawyers for Trump have threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn (£759m) in damages unless the corporation issues a retraction, apologises and compensates him.
Top leadership at the BBC resigned earlier this week, but neither admitted to doing anything wrong. Deborah Turness, the CEO of News, issued a „mistakes have been made“ statement but also denied there was any bias at the BBC. And yet, the Telegraph is reporting today that they identified another instance in which the BBC made essentially the same misleading edit, two years before the one that aired last October.
BBC Newsnight also doctored footage of a Donald Trump speech and ignored concerns that were raised about it, The Telegraph can reveal.
Spliced footage of the speech, which aired in an episode in 2022, made it appear that Mr Trump was encouraging his supporters to riot.
The edit was similar to a version aired in a Panorama documentary that was broadcast last year.
BBC insiders have sought to portray the bias allegations as part of a Right-wing coup against its news operation, suggesting that individual errors were not evidence of a systemic problem.
