US EditionBBC apologises to Trump over speech edit but refuses to pay compensation
The BBC retracted an edited video of Trump's January 6 speech and apologized but denied defamation, rejecting a $1 billion compensation demand amid executive resignations.
- On Thursday the BBC apologised to Donald Trump, retracted the Panorama episode and sent a personal letter to the White House, but refused compensation, BBC chair Samir Shah said.
- A third‑party production company spliced separate parts of Trump's January 6, 2021 speech, combining excerpts nearly an hour apart in the Panorama programme aired days before the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
- A leaked Prescott memo to the Telegraph said the BBC 'completely misled' viewers, triggering more than 500 complaints and resignations by Tim Davie and Deborah Turness.
- Trump's legal team led by Alejandro Brito set a Thursday deadline and threatened a $1 billion lawsuit unless the BBC retracted, apologized, and compensated him; the BBC refused to pay, risking licence‑fee funds.
- The controversy has drawn political scrutiny, with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer urging the BBC to 'get their house in order' and the BBC probing a second possible misleading edit following The Telegraph reports.
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After resignations at the top, the BBC faces a defining test: What does impartiality mean now?
The sudden departure of the BBC’s director general and head of news marks a moment of real consequence for British public service broadcasting. Tim Davie and Deborah Turness’s resignations followed controversy over an inaccurately edited clip in a BBC Panorama documentary about Donald Trump. Opponents of the BBC seized on this as further evidence of widespread bias at the broadcaster. It has now become a flashpoint in the wider political and cul…
BBC apologizes for edit of Trump speech but says it won’t provide legal compensation
Britain’s public broadcaster, the BBC, has issued a personal apology to President Trump over a misleading edit of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech in a documentary broadcast on its Panorama series.But the BBC has firmly rejected a demand from Trump’s legal team for compensation. His personal attorneys threatened a $1 billion defamation lawsuit unless the BBC retracts the program, apologizes and pays for causing him to “suffer overwhelming financial and …
$1 billion lawsuit hangs over BBC despite apology as Trump promises legal action over misleading edit
Earlier, the BBC had acknowledged an error on its part and apologized to Donald Trump, but maintained that it had not defamed the US President and rejected the basis for the lawsuit threat.
BBC Tells Trump To Sod Off … Politely
Britain’s national broadcaster will not be cutting a check to America’s president, thankyouverymuch. Auntie Beeb has closed the cupboard and will not be doling out biscuits to the naughty tyke in chief. After reading his lawyer’s bumptious demand letter that it fork over English taxpayer dollars, the BBC told Trump to do one. The kerfuffle is the result of a documentary aired more than a year ago entitled “Trump: A Second Chance?” in which foota…
The BBC apologized to Donald Trump, but refuses to compensate him financially for having broadcast one of his edited speeches, which anticipates a lawsuit
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