BBC: Trust, Diversity, Royal Charter
A disastrous BBC Panorama editing of US President Trump’s speech, has led to resignations of both the BBC director-general Tim Davie and head of BBC News Deborah Turness. President Trump said that the editing of his 6th January 2021 speech was “egregious” and “worse than the Kamala thing” (reference to a CBS dispute over an interview with Kamala Harris). The President also said, “The people of the UK are very angry about what happened, as you can imagine, because it shows the BBC is fake news”. The outgoing director-general Tim Davie, in defence, has said the BBC must “fight” for its journalism following a “tough few days”, and a further defence came from the current BBC chairman Dr Samir Shah, who insisted the corporation is not institutionally biased. In the wake of this appalling misrepresentation of President Trump’s speech, this article will reflect on the BBC’s recent history and upon the key issues of trust, diversity and the BBC Royal Charter.
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