What happened to the head of the BBC?

he BBC Chairman Samir Shah apologizes Today, Monday, before a parliamentary committee for…Error in judgement“Related to the broadcast of a documentary. The material contained a misleading transcript of a speech by Donald Trump, causing… Resignation of two senior officials Of the series and A Threatening legal action By the American President.

Shah admitted to lawmakers that An edition of the speech by the President of the United States, broadcast on the program panorama A week before the 2024 presidential election, he presented a “false” impression.. The manager explained that the assembly should have been handled more carefully.

In a letter sent to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Shah He acknowledged that the amended articles “could be interpreted as a direct call for violence.”This is an idea that does not match Trump’s actual words. The head of the British public institution promised to strengthen oversight of compliance with the group’s editorial standards.

“The BBC’s commitment to impartiality is absolute“, he wrote. He added that the series is working on “Restoring public confidence and ensuring that its journalism meets the highest editorial standardsHe also explained that the matter was subject to an internal review at the beginning of the year, but no official measures have been taken yet. “The BBC has learned from this case,” he said, adding: “It is our duty Make sure you don’t repeat such mistakes again“.

The controversial version of the program panorama I collected two different parts of a speech given by Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, the day of the attack on the Capitol in Washington. In the final version, The letter appears to include a direct exhortation to “fight like devils” and go to Congress, when in fact the phrases correspond to different paragraphs..

Transmission He deleted what the president said at the time: “Let’s march to the Capitol and cheer on our brave Senators and Representatives.The phrase “they fight like demons” belongs to another moment of the speech, unrelated to this specific context.

Michael PrescottA former independent advisor to the BBC’s Editorial Standards Committee, He wrote the internal report that discovered the error. Prescott indicated in his document that he alerted those responsible for the standards department. According to him, the directors denied violating the rules at the time.

The scandal led to the resignation of BBC director general Tim Davie and chief news officer Deborah Torness on Sunday. And in an internal message Davie stated that “the BBC is doing well” but acknowledged that there were “mistakes” for which he had to take responsibility..

For his part, Torrence rejected accusations of institutional bias. Speaking to reporters outside the group’s headquarters in London, he defended the channel. “BBC News is not biased. That’s why we remain the world’s most trusted news providerAnnounce.

The BBC confirmed that A Legal letter from the US President. In it, he threatens to file a lawsuit against the chain because of “Defamation and intentional manipulationFrom his word. British media reported that Trump’s legal team accuses the channel of “…Perform visual testsWhich damaged its international reputation by an amount of up to one billion dollars.

This is not the first time the president has gone to court against the media: Filing a lawsuit against several American networks, such as The Washington Post and CNNAlthough the judicial system rejected many of those cases. Trump himself celebrated the resignations on his social network Social truth “and criticized”Corrupt and unethical journalists“The follower.” BBC.

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