"But the scandal did not begin with a single programme or a single misjudgement. Close to the centre of this crisis is Robbie Gibb, a man who has spent more than a decade shaping the BBC's political coverage, zig-zagging between the BBC and the Conservative government while advancing his own partisan project that has distorted the corporation's journalism on Brexit, Trump and, eventually, Gaza."
"Gibb has been such a huge figure in the wings of public life in the UK for so long that it is a relief he is now being publicly named and discussed. Until the Panorama scandal and the resignations it triggered, he was rarely scrutinised outside political and media circles. Now he is suddenly in headlines and the subject of fierce debate across social media, as people try to understand how one unelected figure came to wield such influence."
The resignations of BBC Director General Tim Davie and Director of News Deborah Turness followed a Panorama edit of a 2021 speech by President Donald Trump and plunged the broadcaster into a deep crisis. The problem extended beyond a single programme, rooted in long-term influence. Robbie Gibb shaped BBC political coverage for more than a decade, moving between the BBC and the Conservative government and advancing a partisan project that affected reporting on Brexit, Trump and Gaza. The BBC delayed and dropped a film on Gaza's doctors amid this influence. A long-running pattern of interference has now become public, exposing previously unaccountable power within No 10 and the BBC.
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