the bbc was beyond obvious in their editing and almost refusal to acknowledge their foolishness. now they begin to pay a bit of the price;

A film edit is sometimes known as a “bridge”, a term usually used for audio rather than visual content, and it may be that the BBC’s recent creative editing of a speech by Donald Trump is a bridge too far. The two versions of Trump’s now-infamous speech on January 6, 2020 —- both the original and the BBC’s re-imagining on the current affairs program Panorama —- are doubtless familiar to the reader, but can be seen here. The splice joins two of Trump’s statements from the same speech which were originally separated by 54 minutes, and turns Trump’s call for peaceful protest at the Capitol into an apparent call to arms. An endearing trait of Trump’s is giving praise to anyone who has done a good job, even if that person has is an obvious enemy of his. Of the doctored audio, he said: “I don’t know how they did that. Somebody did an amazing job”.

Once this sleight-of-hand was discovered by a Daily Telegraph journalist, there was a degree of collision between excrement and air-extractor. Trump threatened to sue the BBC for $1billion failing a full retraction and apology. The Corporation lost its Director, Tim Davie, and its CEO, Debra Turniss, who quit within days. The number of viewers who had cancelled their TV licenses over the last decade was 2.4 million, but suddenly started to climb exponentially. Inside 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister slowly began to realize that, if the scandal couldn’t bring him down personally, then in media terms (the only ones that matter to the political class), it could harm or even remove his main propaganda megaphone. Predictably, he threw the “state broadcaster” under the bus in public, and was reportedly “very angry”, but that’s all political theatrics. Saving the BBC will now be a political priority, although whether it will be possible is another matter. All in all, a bad day at the office for Auntie, as the BBC used to be affectionately known........more......