"BBC Chair Samir Shah said he and the corporation were "sorry for the edit of the President's speech" acknowledging that the way the footage was spliced created "the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action." But despite the apology, the statement made clear it does not concede the defamation claim. "While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim," the corporation said."
"The documentary titled Trump: A Second Chance? was commissioned by the BBC from an external production company and aired shortly before the 2024 U.S. presidential election. It spliced together separate parts of Trump's speech on the day of the Capitol riots, even though the excerpts came from moments almost an hour apart. Critics argued that the edit misrepresented the president's words, especially by omitting a section where he had called for peaceful protest."
The BBC issued a personal apology to former U.S. President Donald Trump for a misleading edit of his Jan. 6, 2021 speech in a Panorama documentary. The corporation acknowledged that splicing separate excerpts created the mistaken impression of a single continuous segment and implied a direct call for violent action. The documentary was commissioned from an external production company and aired shortly before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, omitting a section where Trump called for peaceful protest. Trump's legal team demanded a retraction, apology, and $1 billion for alleged financial and reputational harm. The BBC apologized, will not rebroadcast the episode, and rejected the legal basis for defamation.
Read at www.npr.org
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]