BBC ‘determined to fight’ any Trump legal action, chairman tells staff

https://news.sky.com/story/bbc-determined-to-fight-any-trump-legal-action-chairman-tells-staff-13471613

Posted by Distinct-Shine-3002

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  4. If this was exposed just think about how much shite from the BBC has been purely edited like that

  6. As if Donald Trump would file a frivolous lawsuit! Perish the thought!

  7. “We’re either giving your tax money to lawyers or to Trump”

  8. Fighting this case will be terrible for the BBC.

    There’s already other clips that have been found since the Panorama one surfaced from Newsnight several years ago doing the same kind of editing.

    If the BBC fights this then it’s going to uncover a mountain of issues that will just make the case for changing the BBC funding model and causing it to lose public broadcaster status.

  10. All this over an (admittedly poor decision) to splice two sections from the same Trump speech together without making it clear that they were said some minutes apart and allegedly created a “misleading” impression that Trump encouraged disorder on Jan 6….. Let him sue, I look forward to discovery….

  11. Love how patriotic this sub is, supporting Trump like your daddy farage.

  12. They literally lied about what he said.
    What exactly are they going to fight?

  13. Well, the BBC can fight it all that they want too but without using my money. I had already stopped paying for the antiquated license fee before they initiated their bully-boy tactics of compelling people to report by telephone that they no longer need a license. Look, you do not need to telephone those bully boys at all to report such. Just stop watching live tv and stop paying the license. It is NOT a legal necessity to go through their bullyboy methods at all. Do not call them. You do not need to.
    In fact, one can hear already examples of the coercive behaviour on such calls on YouTube. Such nastiness against their previous customers should be illegal. I will never go back.
    Hey! Trump! Good luck on giving the BBC a black eye on behalf of all of their vulnerable and elderly victims!

  14. He exactly are they going to fight this when there’s literal video of them altering what he said in speeches on Panorama & Newsnight? As the case is apparently to be brought in the US because BBC is broadcast there the rules of discovery will also apply so Trump’s lawyers Dan request all kinds of other information & videos. If he goes ahead with this they’re going to be absolutely destroyed. Their best bet would be to publicly apologise & negotiate a settlement.

  15. Seeing Trump’s past behaviour, he’ll conflate the BBC as the same as the UK govt, then either wack a $1b tariff on UK goods and claim it as “compensation for the US people” as a PR stunt … Or he’ll try to use it as leverage in some sort of upcoming meeting with Starmer.

  16. Yes fight much harder at the legal action than preserving your impartiality, attention to detail when editing, and your integrity to own up when you blatantly fabricate the news.

    Ffs

  18. That’s something that’ll need to be decided by then I suppose as I’m no lawyer (least of all in the US lol) but given the internet giving global access and other outlets reporting it wouldn’t he be arguing it still reached American viewers? Whatever happens it’s going to potentially be hugely expensive not to mention embarrassing and it’ll impact UK/US relations which are already screwed. It’s a mess and I suspect there’s much more to come out where they’ve “edited” news of Trump & maybe other people who may pile in.

  20. I don’t like the BBC, but it’s surprising how many people in here clearly aren’t from the UK and how many have no idea how UK law works. This will be closed before it even properly starts, at best he will get a settlement.

    Under **UK defamation law**, a claim must be brought *within one year* of publication. That window passed, because the Panorama episode aired in October 2024.

    For a US court to take the case, he must show that the BBC broadcast reached **a significant US audience.** Which it clearly didn’t and then show actual malice which would need some form of internal comms which prove the BBC intentionally ordered for it to be shown in this way, which Is incredibly difficult to prove.

    This is political theatre at most and will just make a couple law firms very happy.

  21. Using licence payer money. Cancel your licence, it ain’t worth it!

  22. Cool, add it to the lost of legal actions the US should be outright pegging trump with rn…

  24. Fight it with what ? Oh, that’s right, they can use license payers’ money.

  25. I don’t understand how anyone can defend the nonce factory that is the BBC at this point with all we know.

  26. what’s there to fight, the can’t claim to not have done it, it’s just a matter of what it’s going to cost them.

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