Two top leaders at the BBC resigned on Sunday amid an escalating scandal over impartiality and bias that plunged Britain’s public broadcaster into one of its biggest crises in recent years.
The BBC’s most senior executive, director general Tim Davie, and the chief executive of the news division, Deborah Turness, both quit after the leak of a deeply critical memo that, among other things, revealed that the BBC had misleadingly edited a speech by Donald Trump to make it appear that he had directly called for violence on January 6.
Vlad Vexler’s comments were along these same lines.
Like, it was bad journalism to splice the start and end of the speech. BUT the speech itself interwove “protest peacefully” with “fight like hell” intentionally to make it hard for a soundbite clip to pin down.
What they should have done is not play his speech at all, but instead talk to legal experts about the evidence in the insurrection case against him.