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The BBC has found itself embroiled in yet another scandal after a news programme edited a speech by Donald Trump to suggest he was calling for violent action on January 6.
The explosive edit led to the downfall of director-general Tim Davie – already a veteran of weathering countless scandals – and the head of BBC News, Deborah Turness, who has sworn that the corporation is not ‘institutionally biased’.
President Trump is said to be furious at the BBC and welcomed the departure of ‘corrupt journalists’.
Its chair, Samir Shah, has accepted today that the broadcaster had made an ‘error of judgement’ in its editing of Trump’s speech on an episode of Panorama, in which appeared to say he was going to walk to the US Capitol to ‘fight like hell’.
Daily Mail columnist and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson had threatened to withhold his licence fee unless Mr Davie broke his silence on the incident or resigned, which he sensationally did on Sunday.
The scandal has shone a light on the contentious issue of the licence fee once again – which Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy admitted this year was ‘unenforceable’.
Corporation bosses are reviewing the future of the fee and whether to replace it with another form of payment. The number of people paying the licence fee fell by 300,000 last year to 23.8million.
In our last poll, Mail readers were asked: Is the state of the UK today a betrayal of service heroes’ sacrifices?
Out of more than 30,500 votes, 98 per cent said ‘Yes’ and just 609 people (two per cent) said ‘No’.
