This is from one of the sites I follow on FB. Sometimes he's right and sometimes he's far left. On this, he is right. I still remember the injustice of that coverage of the miners strike:
The BBC director general Tim Davie and the News CEO Deborah Turness have both resigned over a BBC Panorama show that edited two parts of a Donald Trump speech together to create a misleading representation of his comments about the Capital Hill Riot on January 6th 2021.
It's important to note that this kind of misleading editing isn't new for the BBC at all. The only new thing is that they're actually holding themselves to account for it this time.
One of the most famous examples came in 1984 when BBC editors deliberately reversed the order of footage taken at the Battle of Orgreave during the Miners' Strike, to create the grossly misleading impression that the violent police charge into the miners came about after miners started throwing objects at the police, rather than before.
The BBC never apologised for this.
Another notable example happened in 2017, when Laura Kuenssberg used misleading editing techniques to attack Jeremy Corbyn, by splicing a different question and answer together.
The BBC didn't just refuse to apologise, they let Kuenssberg keep her job despite acknowledging her brazen disregard for BBC impartiality and accuracy guidelines, then they actually gave her a subsequent promotion and even more power and influence over the BBC's political coverage!
It's interesting to see who they apologise and subserviently pander to when they get caught out, and who they don't.
They don't apologise or resign after they're caught smearing British workers; they don't apologise or resign when they're caught smearing British politicians from the left; but then heads roll when they're caught smearing a radically right-wing overseas politician.
Ideally they'd have stopped using misleading editing techniques like this after Kuenssberg was caught red handed smearing Jeremy Corbyn, but why on earth would they have, when they saw her not just get away with it scot-free, but actually land a massive promotion afterwards?
The only reason they're taking it seriously now is that they got caught attacking someone wealthy and powerful on the right. So it seems likely that the only lesson they'll learn from this is that misleading editing techniques are reserved only for the British people and the British left from now on, because using them against the right actually results in consequences.
This is from AAV (Another Angry Voice) should anyone wish to read more.
