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malaise

(291,043 posts)
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 06:00 PM Sunday

WTF? BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign [View all]

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cd9kqz1yyxkt

BBC director general Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness resign over a documentary about Donald Trump
The Telegraph published a leaked BBC memo suggesting a Panorama documentary edited two parts of Trump's speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021
The memo also criticised other areas of BBC News coverage
In a statement, Davie says: "There have been some mistakes made and as director general I have to take ultimate responsibility" - read it in full
In a separate statement, Turness says "the buck stops with me," describing the decision to step down as "difficult". She admits mistakes were made, but says allegations of institutional bias are "wrong"

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That is why I stick with the UK Guardian .
That is all

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