The Media Show: Trump’s Billion-Dollar BBC Threat

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  This week on The Media Show, we need to talk about the BBC.

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  It's lost the director-general and a CEO of News on the same day.

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  That's never happened before.

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  Nor have we ever seen the president of the US threatening to sue the BBC for a billion dollars.

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  Today we're going to explore what's gone wrong at the BBC and where it goes next.

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  If you've not been following events at the BBC, let's just quickly bring you up to speed.

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  The story begins last week after the Telegraph newspaper published a leaked internal BBC memo that criticised a documentary by the BBC's Panorama programme and the way it had edited President Trump's speech in January 2021 on the day of the US Capitol riots in Washington DC.

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  The memo,

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  which was written by a former independent external adviser to the BBC's editorial standards committee,

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  suggested the Panorama programme had edited parts of Trump's speech together,

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  so he appeared to explicitly call for violent action.

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  Further allegations were also included in the memo about institutional bias at the BBC towards certain subjects.

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  The Director-General of the BBC Tim Davy apologised for the President Trump editing and quit,

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  as did Deborah Turness, the boss of the news division.

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  And then Trump's legal team wrote to the BBC, demanding three things.

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  to issue a full and fair retraction of the program and apology and that the BBC appropriately compensate President Trump for the harm caused.

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  And if the BBC doesn't do these things,

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  he's threatened to sue the organization for damages of up to So there is a lot to unpack and to help us we were joined by the columnist Tim Montgomery,

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  the journalist Jane Martinson,

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  former BBC news executive Jamie Angus and we started with John Shield,

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