| Topic: | Re:BBC Boss Resigns! The Trump Debacle Finished Him! | |
| Posted by: | John Hawkes | |
| Date/Time: | 10/11/25 12:20:00 |
| Ms Hammond The BBC World Service broadcasts BBC News in 40 languages, which means it likely that it broadcast Panorama's misleading editing of Donald Trump's speeches worldwide. Then there is the leaked and revealing Prescott report which criticises BBC on many fronts. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/report-bbc-had-to-correct-2-biased-inaccurate-or-misleading-gaza-stories-a-week/ar-AA1Q8f3w?ocid=BingNewsSerp 'The leaked memo that sparked last night’s resignations was not only critical of one edit in a Panorama documentary about Donald Trump. In the full dossier, published by the Telegraph, former independent adviser Michael Prescott highlights several - in his words - "troubling matters". Here’s a summary of the main claims written by Prescott in the memo: "Anti-Trump" bias: Prescott says the BBC’s coverage of the 2024 US election was more critical of Donald Trump than of his opponent, Kamala Harris - including a misleading edit of a speech Trump delivered on 6 January 2021 "Ill-researched" stories on racism: He says the BBC had published "ill-researched material that suggested issues of racism when there were none", including in a now-removed BBC Verify story about car insurance. Too few push alerts on migration and asylum seekers: There was a "selection bias" against sending stories about migration and asylum seekers to BBC News app users as push notifications, Prescott says. "One-sided" transgender coverage: He says the BBC had often published stories "celebrating the trans experience without adequate balance or objectivity" and had ignored certain voices. Anti-Israel bias in BBC Arabic: Several contributors to the BBC’s Arabic service selectively covered stories that were critical of Israel, Prescott writes. Broader issues in Gaza coverage: His other criticisms include misrepresenting the percentage of Palestinian women and children who have been killed by Israel’s military, and misrepresenting the likelihood of children starving under Israel's aid blockade. The BBC has corrected on average of two stories a week reporting on Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza, The Telegraph reports, citing research by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), a pro-Israel media watchdog. BBC Arabic has had to make 215 corrections and clarifications since October 7, 2023, the report says, on stories “found to be biased, inaccurate or misleading.” |