BBC leaders are under pressure from lawmakers after Trump threatened a public prosecution
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The BBC’s chairman admitted on Monday that he was too slow to respond to allegations of misleading editorials about Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, but denied that the British broadcaster’s impartiality was down to his board.
The BBC’s top leaders were raising the culture of the UK Parliament, the Committee on Sport and Sports It was a big problem for the publicly funded business after its director general and Head of News both threatened to introduce a billion-dollar law.
The BBC is pulling Rimp’s Ire Screen – and intense public scrutiny – after an internal memo shared with one of their ex-pats was leaked to the British press.
The memo criticized the allegations of reporting allegedly written by the documentary in the days leading up to the 2024 US election, as well as other BBC coverage including its stance on transgender issues, Gaza and race.
Chairman Samir Shah said the broadcaster should act as quickly as possible in dealing with the allegations.
The third party production company that created the document – has a title Trump: A second chance? – Splice together three quotes from God Trump gave on Jan. 6, 2021, in what appeared to be a one-off measure in which Trump urged supporters to come with him and “fight hell.”
The arrangement made it look like Trump is directly encouraging his supporters to drink at the US Capitol as the conference is ready for the President’s victory in the 2020 elections. Shah admitted that the charter gave “the impression of a direct call to violent action.”
BBC Chairman Samir Shah faced parliamentary scrutiny on Monday for being mistreated by US President Donald Trump, admitting the broadcaster had to react as quickly as possible. Michael Prescott, a former BBC adviser who wrote the leaked memo that sparked the crisis, said he believed the BBC had ‘major organizational problems.’
“I think there’s a problem with how quickly we respond… Why are we taking so long?” He told law enforcement on Monday. “We should have chased it to the end and got to the bottom of it, not waiting, as we waited, until we became the talk of the public.”
The BBC said last week that Shah had sent a letter to the White House saying that he and the organization regretted the planning of the speech. But the broadcaster said it had not defamed Trump and rejected the basis for its threat of lawsuits.
Allegations of Political Interference
On Monday, Shah also defended Board member Robbie Gibb, a non-executive director of the BBC board who has been the subject of intense scrutiny because he was the former communications director of the Prime Minister’s Government.
Critics accused GIBB of Pro-Conservative Party Bias and political interference at the BBC.
“I think I’ve been able to be manipulated in terms of how I’m perceived,” Gibb said.
He dismissed claims that a coup from the BBC’s board had forced the resignation of senior news leaders as “absolute nonsense.”
Last week Banerji, a member of the BBC’s Board, was interviewed and said he was stepping down over “governance issues,” raising further questions about the organisation’s leadership.
Asked if its position was in doubt, Shah said the priority had been to “right the ship” and find a new director.
Criticism calls out ‘blind spot’ at BBC
Earlier in the House of Commons, lawmakers focused on questions about editing standards raised by Michael Prescott, a former foreign correspondent and foreign editing standards adviser at the BBC.
Prescott was the author of an internal memo to BBC management that raised concerns about the editing of Trump’s speech and other apparent circumstances as reflecting the shrinking left-wing electorate. Among other things, it was said that the writers spread the word promoting a pro-trans agenda and warned against the anti-Israel Brias in the Arabic service of the BBC.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper published that note in early November, creating the latest crisis.
In October, Britain’s Communications Regulator reprimanded the BBC for ‘misleading’ material on the lives of children in Gaza because it failed to disclose that the father of Children’s Narrator held a position in the Hamas Administration. The administrator said that the program may be hopeless for the broadcaster.
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Prescott said he believed the BBC had “systematic” problems in dealing with the issues raised and described the company as defending and dismissing concerns raised by its reporting.
He said ex-BBC chief executive Jim Davie and other executives “have a blind spot in the abuse of editors.” But he told lawmakers that he didn’t think there was “institutional discrimination” against the broadcaster.
The 103-year-old BBC faces much greater scrutiny than other buildings and commercial competitors because of the national institution that is paid a fee of pounds 174.50 pounds per year watching live TV or any BBC content. The broadcaster is bound by the terms of its Charter to be impartial.
Legal experts said Trump may face challenges to take the case against the BBC’s plan in court in the UK or the US arguing that the BBC could be harmed, as he is finally elected President in 2024.
