{"id":132,"date":"2025-11-11T15:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/?p=132"},"modified":"2025-11-11T15:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:43:31","slug":"bbc-director-general-resigns-after-allegations-of-misleadingly-editing-trump-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/2025\/11\/11\/bbc-director-general-resigns-after-allegations-of-misleadingly-editing-trump-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Director-General Resigns After Allegations Of Misleadingly Editing Trump Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BBC Director-General Resigns After Allegations Of Misleadingly Editing Trump Speech<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BBC Director General announced his resignation on Sunday following a row over the editing of a documentary about US <a href=\"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/2025\/10\/31\/the-us-and-indian-government-sign-10-year-defence-pact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, the broadcaster\u2019s head of news, have resigned after accusations that a documentary by its flagship Panorama programme had edited a speech by Trump in a misleading way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLike all public organisations, the BBC is not perfect, and we must always be open, transparent and accountable,\u201d Davie said in a statement posted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhile not being the only reason, the current debate around BBC News has understandably contributed to my decision\u2026 I have to take ultimate responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adding to the recent controversy follows a Daily Telegraph report this week that said concerns were first raised in the summer in a memo on impartiality by Michael Prescott, a former external adviser to the BBC\u2019s editorial standards committee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier Sunday, the UK Culture, Media and Sport Minister Lisa Nandy called the allegations \u201cincredibly serious\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Director-General Resigns After Allegations Of Misleadingly Editing Trump Speech The BBC Director General announced his resignation on Sunday following a row over the editing of a documentary about US President Donald Trump. Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, the broadcaster\u2019s head of news, have resigned after accusations that a documentary by its flagship Panorama programme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}