WH press secy slams BBC for editing

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Bob F

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Nov 8, 2025, 12:16:23 PMNov 8
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Karoline Leavitt, watching the pubcaster while in the UK with the boss, saw how some MPs complained about how a recent episode of Panorama (their "60 Minutes", tho around for many more years) covering what Don said on 1/6/21, left in the "fight" part but not the "peacefully" part... in a Telegraph interview, she spouted his "fake news" line and how it "ruins" her day to listen to "blatant propaganda and lies":
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Bob F

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Nov 9, 2025, 5:00:21 PMNov 9
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BBC director general Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness, who came to the pubcaster from NBC, resigned earlier today (11/9):
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Kevin M.

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Nov 9, 2025, 5:26:30 PMNov 9
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Eventually, media outlets will recognize that they don’t need to cook the books, that Trump says enough stupid and incendiary crap on any given day, and they don’t need to edit or recut him to make him sound objectively worse. 

Kevin M. (RPCV)


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PGage

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Nov 9, 2025, 7:57:49 PMNov 9
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A more efficient business model for today’s TV newsrooms would be to simply have the White House press secretary, produce A lot of coverage and deliver all news reports on the American president.

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Kevin M.

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Nov 9, 2025, 8:16:51 PMNov 9
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Or, just don’t screw up the easy stuff. 

Kevin M. (RPCV)


Bob F

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Nov 10, 2025, 11:43:05 AMNov 10
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So the Press Office should actually generate content, which all stations/groups could somehow be compelled to provide on all levels? It wouldn't surprise me if it happened, as it's easy to conclude the administration is bent on getting its message, regardless of (ahem) popular perception, out to as many people as possible.

That said, they may have decided that their principal outlet is (still) social media.
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PGage

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Nov 10, 2025, 4:27:47 PMNov 10
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In case it wasn’t clear, I was being sarcastic, I don’t think the BBC or CBS or the Washington Post or any other news outlet that wants to be taken seriously should be taking dictation from the White House. I’m not convinced that the BBC situation really was a journalistic error just as I strongly believe that the 60 Minutes incident with Donald Trump was not a journalistic error. If professional journalist at the BBC decide that it was a mistake then they should do what credible news outlets do and have always done, which is not the error, Apologize for it correct it and move on. Professionalism is not about not making mistakes after all about being transparent and acknowledging mistakes and learning from them. 

But that whole discussion is such absurd bullshit in the context of an administration that makes a feature out of constantly turning out, clearly dishonest, false narratives at a staggering clip, and then, pretending their high standards are offended so much that the culprit must be immediately fired only when the incident is Related to something that they don’t like or disagree with.

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Tom Wolper

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Nov 10, 2025, 6:06:24 PMNov 10
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I remember this as an issue during the GW Bush administration, especially over the Iraq War. At the time a lot of people called the news media White House press corps stenographers. They went to briefings and reported what officials said verbatim, while it was clear that they were lying. There has always been a problem of how journalists are supposed to report something said in bad faith. This administration has turned to threats and bullying.


Bob F

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Nov 11, 2025, 10:08:57 AMNov 11
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Welp, Trump is now jumping into this headfirst with a letter threatening to sue the Beeb for a billion dollars:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/media/bbc-trump-edit-lawsuit-turness-davie-media (link)
Make of this what you will, of course...
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Bob F

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Nov 14, 2025, 10:28:15 AMNov 14
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The Beeb apologizes for the editing, but "we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim,” said a spokeser... the suit would be brought in Florida, never mind that the docu episode isn't available in the US:
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Moi, Nov 11th:

Bob F

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Dec 15, 2025, 8:48:48 PM (4 days ago) Dec 15
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Of course, disagreement doesn't mean beans to ol' smelly:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-files-powerhouse-10-billion-lawsuit-against-bbc-over-documentary-editing-his-jan-6-remarks (link)
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Bob F

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Dec 19, 2025, 3:38:31 PM (17 hours ago) Dec 19
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The corp's committee responsible for those editorial guidelines stopped short of revising them, but their head of editorial complaints and reviews "acknowledged that lessons were not acted on quickly or decisively enough across the organization"... a separate review by the full BBC board calls for further changes, apparently including in personnel, to the committee:
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PGage, to moi, Nov 10th:

Bob F

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Dec 19, 2025, 3:43:06 PM (17 hours ago) Dec 19
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The actual releases, of the committee's decision and the board's...
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