BBC expected to apologise for doctoring Trump videos

I am certainly very supportive of any whistleblower, but I do not exercise my support without judgement.

One should always give consideration to the motive behind the information, and as a rule it is almost always for altruistic reasons, like people and children in care, NHS malpractice, or police conduct.

However, whistleblowing as a result of political motivation should be treated with great care.

Prescott’s letter fell short both on accuracy and formed part of a political attack. It is known that Gibb and Prescott have a relationship, and are well known by the BBC staff to work together pushing a particular political line, when the BBC is supposed to be as many on this thread say - impartial.

Ed Davey - recognises this and has called for his resignation.

ronib

Trump has consistently claimed that the UK has fake news. He has exposed the problem and now hard evidence is hard to ignore.

It's only fake if it doesn't glorify him. Trump can't handle criticism.

Trump has consistently claimed that the UK has fake news. He has exposed the problem and now hard evidence is hard to ignore.

Er you do know how authoritarian you sound, that people who hold a different view to you should go live elsewhere. Sounds like a far right viewpoint to me.
Welcome to the club we are all far right now.

ronib

This foreigner has helped the UK by exposing very poor practices in the BBC. As a national broadcaster, the BBC needs to take full responsibility for its own mistakes. Shah as chairman doesn’t seem to have grasped what his organisation has done. Fake news is real and the BBC broadcasts it and no, it’s not okay.

He hasn’t exposed anything. He’s taken advantage of somebody else exposing something, for personal financial gain.

This foreigner has helped the UK by exposing very poor practices in the BBC. As a national broadcaster, the BBC needs to take full responsibility for its own mistakes. Shah as chairman doesn’t seem to have grasped what his organisation has done. Fake news is real and the BBC broadcasts it and no, it’s not okay.

LizzieDrip

^Anyone who backs this foreigner against our own state is a traitor, simple as. They should leave and live in the USA^

Hear, hear IOMGran 👏👏👏

This definitely. There are those who wish to destroy Britain by any means possible.

There's a limit on how much trump could claim in the British court. I believe it's £250,000. At least that is what a lawyer said on BBC breakfast this morning. And it's a dodgy move anyway as it'll open up his actions to legal scrutiny. I'm not sure he would relish that.
It's all smoke and mirrors.

Anyone who backs this foreigner against our own state is a traitor, simple as. They should leave and live in the USA

Hear, hear IOMGran 👏👏👏

Mollygo

Right now I’m more interested in the latest that Trump‘s going to sue the BBC for 1 billion. Because if he does and he’s successful, guess who’s going to be paying for it.

It will be difficult for Trump to sue as I explained in my post earlier this morning.

Right now I’m more interested in the latest that Trump‘s going to sue the BBC for 1 billion. Because if he does and he’s successful, guess who’s going to be paying for it.

Whistleblowers should be encouraged in large organisations like the BBC, NHS, Police, Fire Service etc. along with large Private Sector organisations.

Without whistleblowers, we are back to bullying and underhand shenanigans going unexposed, and the perpetrators going unpunished.

Tim Davie all smiles and in denial on TV just now.

I always say thank God for whistleblowers in any Company!

Trying to rubbish the whistleblower now is it? Look, the Heads of the BBC do not resign for trivial reasons.
Mistakes, deliberate or otherwise and bias are very real and need to be addressed.The buck stops at the top.

There is a connection to Robbie Gibb a BBC board member - a Tory and May’s former communications chief. I can remember the shenanigans over his time with May and his sudden departure.

Ed Davey has called for his removal from the BBC board because of him being implicated in the whistleblowing. Gibb was also an editorial advisor for GB News.

His time as board member has not been wholly popular as he is known to constantly try to interfere with what should be independent editorial decisions, particularly as he was a political appointee.

Gibb and other political appointees should have no role in the appointment of a new DG imo.

Maremia

For all of the people who have critically viewed the original Trump speech and the Panorama version, have you also read what the Whistleblower's 'factual' account was?
Apparently he has not been completely 'truthful' in his version either. Was he also trying to spin the narrative to suit his accusation?
The plot thickens.

That’s interesting, Maremia. I have read that there are ‘questions’ to be asked about the whistleblower’s connections and motivations. I also get the impression that the leaked ‘memo’ is rather more extensive than one would expect a ‘memo’ to be.

Has it been made public? Is it available on line anywhere?

IOMGran

Whitewavemark2

It was screened 3? Years ago.

Yes, hence the manufactured outrage now is obviously a part of a wider move to destroy our BBC. And too many are falling for it.

Don’t be silly, the outrage isn’t manufactured it’s very real.If the BBC head honcho’s hadn’t been so arrogant this wouldn’t now be big news and they wouldn’t have to have resigned.
Just because they commissioned outside companies to make documentaries for Panorama and such programmes doesn’t mean these programmes aren’t watched by the Heads of Dept before they air them. As for bias against Israel, it’s been noted for a long time, also bias against women in favour of transwomen.They know this and have admitted their ‘errors’ which of course weren’t mistakes at all but real bias .
Hoping that real changes will now be made.

If the BBC invites only people who share its 'leftie' views, how come we have seen more of Reform than LibDem on its programmes recently, despite the fact that LibDem has ten times as many MPs as Reform?

And David claims that it is a 'fact' of the political leanings of BBC despite offering no factual evidence to support his opinion.
No surprise there.

Trump has threatened to sue the BBC but he is out of time as a prosecution has to be lodged within a year in the UK and the programme was aired over a year ago.
He can't do it in the US as the programme wasn't aired there.

It was a very stupid thing for the BBC to do so hope that with new people things like this won't happen again

Agree with you there GG

For all of the people who have critically viewed the original Trump speech and the Panorama version, have you also read what the Whistleblower's 'factual' account was?
Apparently he has not been completely 'truthful' in his version either. Was he also trying to spin the narrative to suit his accusation?
The plot thickens.

IOMGran

Whitewavemark2

It was screened 3? Years ago.

Yes, hence the manufactured outrage now is obviously a part of a wider move to destroy our BBC. And too many are falling for it.

I do not want to destroy the BBC, I watch a lot of its content, it makes and broadcasts good quality entertainment.

I do want its news broadcasts and political coverage, including documentaries to be truthful.

As I have previously posted, if any speech, discussion, interview is edited it should be highlighted and a link to the full content given.

I bet the commercial newspapers are just loving this.
If we were to get the same amount and variety of news output on all of the forms and formats that the BBC provides, how much would that cost?