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muriel_volestrangler

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7. The annoying thing is that it wouldn't have made much difference at the time

Reply to malaise (Reply #5)

Sun Nov 9, 2025, 06:53 PM

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It's not like the people who would have watched it were US voters who'd be influenced by it; for the general "what do we in the UK think of Trump" evidence, there's loads of other stuff they could have run straight. And there doesn't seem to have been any public complaints about it at the time - someone noticed it at some time, and it turned up in this internal review.

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

Further erosion of the trust in global news Melon Sunday #1

very strange. Thanks for posting. spooky3 Sunday #2

The editing (done by an independent producer, but the BBC producers didn't stop it) was fairly misleading muriel_volestrangler Sunday #3

Thanks for this malaise Sunday #5

The annoying thing is that it wouldn't have made much difference at the time muriel_volestrangler Sunday #7

Doctoring a video of a president who says the dumb shit Trump spews TheProle Sunday #6

I have friends in the UK who hate trump passionately radical noodle Sunday #4