Trump threatens to sue BBC over Panorama edit that he says made his Jan 6 speech appear to urge violence

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mx28vlp4wo

"An episode of the Panorama documentary TV series misled viewers when it edited a speech by Trump, making it look like he was explicitly urging people to attack the US Capitol on 6 January 2021"

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jordanlund@lemmy.world · 91 pts · 306d (4 replies)

In fairness, the unedited speech urged violence...

butterycroissant@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 306d (1 reply)

Hard to imagine this unedited speech line wasn't meant to rile people up - "We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore,"

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 306d

Yup. I remember sending people the transcript when they were trying to say "Yeah, he didn't mean violently..."

Uh... did you read the transcript? 🤔

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial

kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 306d (1 reply)

I mean, there was really no need to edit anything. The Truth is bad enough. Just report that, people!

saigot@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 306d

You kinda have to edit trump to get him to form a complete sentence.

tonytins@pawb.social · 25 pts · 306d (2 replies)

Let's see... Trump lost. Therefor, he had no business being there the day votes were being verified by Congress.

DomeGuy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 306d (1 reply)

He had no business being there ANYWAY.

And Congress didn't "verify" anything. It was a rote formalism with about as much real power regarding the election as the coronation of the king of England.

tonytins@pawb.social · 3 pts · 306d

Fair enough. In hindsight, my argument was assuming a lot but you get the gist.

just_another_person@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 306d (1 reply)

Good luck during discovery, pedo

DrFistington@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 306d

Yeah, let's hear what Jack Smith has to say, live in front of Congress before saying BBC misrepresented anything...

Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 306d

I watched the entire J6 "rally" in real time. The message was coded, but clear. That mob was doing exactly what the people on stage wanted it to do.

If anything, you'd have to edit their speeches in order to not show that they were urging that crowd to fight.

etherphon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 306d

He did do that, we all know he did that. I'm beyond sick at these motherfuckers who keep refuting reality.

foodandart@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 306d

I think the Beeb has told him to get stuffed, on the money. They know he's as potent as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor at this point.

For the same reasons..

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 306d

Ugh, they apologized to this asshole.

Skiluros@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 306d

Mr Prescott, who until June 2025 was an independent adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Board, also highlights serious problems with BBC Arabic’s reporting on Gaza, in which it apparently gives extensive space to the views of Hamas.

I was curious what this meant, so I read the relevant section and while some of the arguments seem suspect, there were definitely massive red flags with the policies of BBC Arabic.

Haven't read the US election part yet, but the points raised in the intro don't sound coherent.

EDIT: The US election part is a lot less convincing. They should have explicitly stated that they are combining two separate sections from the speech, but the argument seems more like a technicality. Some other minor points were fair, but there were a lot of incoherent arguments. One example.

The BBC sometimes fell into using, without attribution, contested language such as “reproductive rights”. This signals to many BBC viewers, particularly those in America, a biased mindset.

Reproductive rights isn't a contested term.

RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 306d (1 reply)

You can't sue people from prison, silly rapist. Tricks are not for kids.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 306d

You kinda can in the US. Dunno about civilized countries.

thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 306d

Wait til bro gets a Chris Morris edit

tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 306d

How dare they hear the dog whistle?!

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 306d

Meanwhile they busily edit anything a Democrat says to indicate something other than what the context of the statement was.