BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd9kqz1yyxkt?app-referrer=push-notification

Posted by DWJones28

22 comments

  1. Imagine what a better world we might live in if people with common sense held these positions.

  2. Revoke the TV licence and all funding for the BBC, we can’t have a publicly funded national broadcaster acting in this way.

    Let them stand on their own two feet.

  3. Didn’t resign when they fucked over Corbyn with this shit

  4. Let’s wait to see who replaces them. “Studied at SOAS, grew up in Jewish occupied Palestine, boko ha-what?”

  5. There are so many real issues to criticize Trump for, you don’t need to make stuff up. It’s just feeding their oppression complex.  And they already have it out for the BBC. 

  6. They resigned so they will keep all their bonuses, pensions etc. Inciting terror for views on a global scale.

  7. State sponsored propaganda thats paid for by the public, but if you have an opinion against the state you go to jail. What has become of the UK?

  8. This is such bullshit. He said you’ve got to fight (said that MANY times in the speech), fight like hell or they’re going to take your country away from you. What did he think was going to happen? Obviously he wanted them to stop the certification of the vote. Pressuring Mike Pence to “do the right thing”, and when he didn’t do the “right thing”, his mob chant “hang Mike Pence”. Fuck this. More people bending the knee to King Trump.

  9. Imagine going up against MAGA, having them dead to rights and somehow still managing to hand them an easy win.

  10. The BBC has been spreading neo-liberal propaganda for years.

    If you aren’t establishment you’re their target.

    This isn’t the first time they have been caught either, panorama alone have been caught by Tommy Robinson, Corbyn, got caught again using Hamas to spread anti Israel propaganda and now Trump.

    That program needs to end. But I’m sure they’ll carry on lying about anyone they don’t like.

  12. This is the final nail in the coffin for the BBC. Once something to be proud of it is now a stain on the nation’s reputation and standing in the world.

  13. This needs to be the very last scandal. And I think that that the only way that is achievable is by ending this forced subscription to a service no one is demanding.

    All these smug morons making hundreds of grand a year to lie to us, need to join the dole queue.

  14. They fabricated a video, so yeah. Resignation is the least that should happen. They’ve put the BBC at the middle of an international incident and caused serious reputational damage. That’d be a dismissal at any serious business in the world.

  15. As much as I hate it when people scream fake news I do understand where they are coming from. This is an overt example of not only biased news but propaganda.

    Their is a massive list of messed up stuff trump has said or done, why is their such a need to fabricate stuff?

    As for the BBC and people defending them stating their is no bias, their is always bias it is human nature and most sensible people can see that the BBC leans slightly to the left, and have done for a while.

    If the BBC recognized and accept this than they would have a little more credibility.

    For me personally the BBC of the best news organizations in the world, but they are not perfect. I also recognize that they are biased, which is why a lot of the time I check multiple new sources.

  16. BBCs own “misinformation correspondent” Marianna Spring wasn’t sacked after it emerged she lied on her CV. Looks like she’s been promoted to panorama since which is morbidly hilarious. BBC is probably the safest place in the country to work if you know the right people.

  19. Conservative pols have been trying to kill the BBC practically since it started, so this hue and cry is nothing new.

    The BBC itself has pretty much been outright suicidal for decades, trying to adjust to stay alive while under attack, resulting in some pretty awful decisions, especially this last few years. Aside from Auntie trying to sweep monsters like Savile under the rug, they’ve repeatedly chosen to abandon any pretense of impartiality in the news and current affairs strands and repeatedly platform hard right chancers like Punchy Farage and other sideshow geeks. On top of that, they make howlingly stupid mistakes like the Panorama Trump documentary and the Gaza piece that look like leftist bias.

    In its entire history I don’t think the BBC has gone a week without bias, usually to the right. Meanwhile, they do some of the best programming going (we’ll ignore the sitcoms) and there’s a lot that’ll be missed if Auntie gets axed.

  21. He was a political appointee by the former Conservative government. And we all remember what upstand patriotic citizens they were. I’m surprised that a) he wasn’t immediately replaced, and b) that he hadn’t fucked up sooner than this.

  22. All the “commun sens” muppets are coming out for this one aren’t they.

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