BBC expected to apologize after using doctored footage of Trumps Jan. 6 speech in documentary: report
The BBC is reportedly expected to apologize after using a “doctored” clip of President Trump’s Jan.6, 2021, speech in a documentary released last year.BBC chairman Samir Shah will apologize to the UK House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Monday, expressing regret for misleading viewers by splicing together clips of Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally in the Panorama documentary, which aired last October, the Telegraph reported.
The mea culpa comes after Michael Prescott, the British network’s former Editorial Guidelines and Standards adviser, released a damning 19-page report alleging widespread bias within the organization and highlighting warnings he issued in May about the “doctored” speech, according to the outlet.The whistleblower claimed the BBC “mangled” the clip in its documentary “Trump: A Second Chance?” to make it appear as if the president encouraged crowds to storm the Capitol.Prescott noted that the network aired footage of Trump appearing to tell rally-goers: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you and we fight.
We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell you’re not gonna have a country any more.”The clip was spliced together from three separate parts of Trump’s speech — with a nearly hour-long gap edited out to make it seem like one fluent sentence.Trump’s actual remarks were: “We’re gonna walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re gonna walk down, we’re gonna walk down any one of you but I think right here, we’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and we’re gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressman and women.”The BBC edited out the president saying, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” About 54 minutes into Trump’s speech, he told the crowd, “We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country an...