Why is Donald Trump threatening to sue the BBC?
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The BBC has come under fire after criticism that a Panorama documentary misleadingly edited a speech by Donald Trump.

“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”

  • Skiluros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    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.