In the Trump documentary: Accusations of manipulation towards the BBC – the broadcaster’s boss has to elucidate himself to Parliament | EUROtoday

In Great Britain, Culture Minister Lisa Nandy described the allegations towards the BBC over a deceptive compilation of statements by US President Donald Trump as “extremely serious”. Nandy instructed BBC News on Sunday that she had now spoken to the broadcaster’s boss, Samir Shah, who has to elucidate himself to a parliamentary committee on Monday.

Several media shops anticipated an apology. The newspaper “The Daily Telegraph” reported on Tuesday that the BCC had edited components of the speech given by Trump on January 6, 2021 earlier than the storming of the Capitol in Washington in its “Panorama” information format.

In the speech given after his defeat within the election to former President Joe Biden, Trump claimed that he had been cheated out of the election victory, so his supporters ought to “fight like hell.” On the identical day, hundreds of his supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington.

BBC boss Samir Shah now has to elucidate himself to parliament

In the unedited recording of the speech, Trump says at one level: “We will march to the Capitol and cheer on our brave senators and representatives in Congress.” In a a lot later part of the speech, Trump declared with regard to the election outcome that one thing had gone improper, that could not be proper, “and we’re fighting, fighting like hell.” In the BBC documentary, nevertheless, the 2 sentences have been put straight collectively, reinforcing the impression that Trump had straight referred to as on his supporters to storm the seat of the US Congress.

For his function within the storming of the Capitol, Trump was indicted in 2023 on expenses together with conspiracy to impede an official act and defrauding the United States. But after Trump’s election victory on November 5, 2024, particular investigator Jack Smith was pressured to cease the prison proceedings towards the right-wing populist.

The documentary, titled “Trump: A Second Chance?” (Trump: A Second Chance?) was broadcast every week earlier than the US presidential election on November fifth. A BBC spokesman stated Shah would give a “detailed response” to Parliament’s Culture and Media Committee on Monday. Minister Nandy stated she was “confident” that the channel’s administration was “treating the matter with the necessary seriousness”.

It’s not simply concerning the “Panorama” program, however “a series of very serious allegations, the most serious of which is that there is a systemic bias in the BBC’s reporting on difficult topics,” the Minister for Culture, Media and Sport defined.