Tim Davie and BBC News Chief Resign From Corporation
Tim Davie has stepped down as BBC Director-General over the misleading editing of a Trump speech, with news chief Deborah Turness also calling it quits. The Mail has the latest.
In a statement, Mr Davie said: “There have been some mistakes made and as Director-General I have to take ultimate responsibility.”
It comes after the scandal hit broadcaster was this week plunged into a fresh crisis after an internal dossier exposed a string of incidents that demonstrate serious apparent bias in the Corporation’s reporting.
The concerns regard clips spliced together from sections of Mr Trump’s speech on January 6th, 2021 to make it appear he told supporters he was going to walk to the US Capitol with them to “fight like hell”.
The documentary Trump: A Second Chance? was broadcast by the BBC the week before last year’s US election.
Mr Trump’s White House has since accused the BBC of “100% fake news”. …
Deborah Turness, the CEO of News, has also resigned following criticism that the BBC documentary misled viewers
The resignations also follow a newsroom revolt after a newsreader who corrected “pregnant people” to “women” while live on air was rebuked.
The BBC has also faced fierce criticism for its coverage of the Israel-Gaza war and transgender rights.
While the dossier, written by former journalist Michael Prescott and sent to the BBC board, also raised serious concerns about BBC Arabic’s reporting on Gaza.
The corporation had already been under pressure after admitting to breaking editorial guidelines when Bob Vylan’s “deeply-offensive” chant of “death to the IDF” at Glastonbury was broadcast live to millions.
There was a nationwide backlash to the set, which saw Vylan lead the crowd in a chant of “death, death to the IDF,” as well as “from the river to the sea”, and used the term “f****** Zionists”.
The band’s frontman, real name Pascal Robinson-Foster, even claimed that BBC staff on the ground at the event told him that they “loved” his set, and called it “fantastic”.
Mr Davie was forced to apologise to the Commons’ culture select committee, and told staff the broadcast was “deeply-offensive” …
Following his departure, Mr Davie said: “I wanted to let you know that I have decided to leave the BBC after 20 years. This is entirely my decision, and I remain very thankful to the Chair and Board for their unswerving and unanimous support throughout my entire tenure, including during recent days.
“I am working through exact timings with the Board to allow for an orderly transition to a successor over the coming months.
“I have been reflecting on the very intense personal and professional demands of managing this role over many years in these febrile times, combined with the fact that I want to give a successor time to help shape the Charter plans they will be delivering.
“In these increasingly polarised times, the BBC is of unique value and speaks to the very best of us. It helps make the UK a special place; overwhelmingly kind, tolerant and curious. Like all public organisations, the BBC is not perfect, and we must always be open, transparent and accountable. While not being the only reason, the current debate around BBC News has understandably contributed to my decision.
“Overall the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made and as Director-General I have to take ultimate responsibility.”
Stop Press 2: Broadcaster Colin Brazier has berated presenter Nick Robinson after he claimed there was a political campaign to “destroy” the BBC, reports the Mail.
Funny, BBC Verify (falsify) failed to apply its usual rigour to the Panorama (mistake? Don’t think so) coverage.
Surely, BBC should now leave, or be kicked out of the TNI (trusted news initiative), as it clearly can’t be trusted, and their DG resigning won’t change their institutional and editorial bias one iota.
Can we now expect free debate and unbiased coverage of the climate con, vaccine injuries or anything else? Of course not, it’s only when the coverup fails they show any contrition or regret.
Their charter renewal should be declined, but Labour won’t do that! Scrap the licence fee and either dismantle it all, or force it to operate as a commercial organisation.
I theory it should be worth a lot of money were we to privatise it. In practice I believe that whatever the ongoing business is worth is negated by the pension liability.
It was no mistake. Some Far Left bint was on the Late Show with Ben and Bev and fair play to them for laughing when this airhead said that it was standard journalistic practice to make a clip out of different parts. The sad thing must be that she thought this was a true and a good response.
“It helps make the UK a special place; overwhelmingly kind, tolerant and curious.” No it does not, quite the reverse; intolerant, misinformed, needlessly frightened and anxious and thoroughly unBritish. They should be broken up, sold off and the word “British” reclaimed from their bastardised branding. And the consumers should decide where to spend their media money instead of being taxed on penalty of jail time.
But it’s merely deflection rather than any sort of solution.
It was clearly an approved way of doing things. Who actually made the edit and on whose authority? Which people made it happen? What is it about their culture that makes them willing to do this?
Their accusations of misinformation, disinformation and fake news will be much harder for them to maintain now, a big win for those wanting just the truth and free speech.
BBC clearly trying to put a finger in the leaky dam.
The whole organisation is rotten from top to bottom.
Davis and Turness will be ‘recycled’ to another establishment position, and two more establishment clones will take the vacated posts.
I agree. The whole organization is rotten, from top to bottom.
Nobody, absolutely nobody is employed by the BBC in any position higher than a janitor, unless they wholeheartedly subscribe to cultural Marxist ideology.
It has been known for decades that their entire recruitment process is carefully designed to filter out anybody who does not sign up to the leftist guardianista mindset.
A newsreader who corrected “pregnant people” to “women” was rebuked yet many news readers show their opinions of people and issues by the tone of voice or their facial expressions. Fiona Bruce was a very bad example.
“In case you are wondering what is going on in the UK, the very same media organisation, the BBC, that routinely accuses people who simply hold different views of ‘misinformation’ is now imploding because it has been caught spreading … misinformation.” Matt Goodwin.
Yes, indeed.
They have one of their self-aggrandizing adverts before the news:
(serious voice): Misinformation… You think you are winning… (naff computer generated images with Bill Gates).
And then telling us how we can trust the BBC because they work they and night to bring you the news… that you can trust.
Haha.
Bill Bailey
5 months ago
Perhaps they should get rid of the DEI hires, that may make a difference.
MajorMajor
5 months ago
Keep in mind that this is an organization that has an entire department called “BBC Verify”. Yet somehow, just somehow they managed to falsify a speech made by someone they really don’t like.
Jeff Chambers
5 months ago
The BBC – as though Joseph Goebbels and Andrei Zhdanov came back to life as a single person, and then manifested themselves as an organisation. Scary.
Western Firebrand
5 months ago
Donald Trump should revoke visas for any BBC-ers intending to visit USA for next year’s football World Cup. Of course, BBC coverage of the men’s game would expect coverage by the usual good number of woman-people, full DEI participation and over-paid wife-beaters (who once kicked a football). Seriously, Donald, your country doesn’t need them.
mickie
5 months ago
I predict that Emily Maitlis will be the next DG.
Gezza England
5 months ago
Now cancel their gold-plated pensions and give them their contributions back.
Looking on the bright side, the beeb has issued a masterclass on how to edit footage so as to change the meaning of the contributors. The technique is probably often used when some kind of interview is used, but in this case it was a political speech by Donald Trump; you couldn’t make it up, if it was a lecture to a bunch of students!
marebobowl
5 months ago
Resigned? Or get the sack. Wonderful to see them pushed. Now if the president could do something similar to American broadcasters.
Richard
5 months ago
When all the immediate mud slinging has died down I hope it will have the long term effect of abolishing the totally out dated licence fee. When their charter comes up for renewal in 2027 it simply becomes another subscription channel we have a choice to subscribe to or not. It can then present whatever political woke stance it wants and nobody is going to jump up and down about it. It will make a good left wing balance to GB News’ right wing views for example, and nobody will be fooled anymore. And in fairness, I’d subscribe for a lot of their excellent non news content, dramas, nature programmes etc. I haven’t watched their news since Covid and their refusal to discuss alternatives to the official narrative.
“There have been some mistakes made and as Director-General I have to take ultimate responsibility.”——OH NO YOU DON’T MATE. —-A MISTAKE IS WHEN YOU DON’T MEAN TO DO SOMETHING.—–THIS WAS DELIBERATE. —–THIS IS WHY YOU ARE HEAD OF THE BRITISH BRAINWASHING CORPORATION AND IT IS THE WHOLE LOT OF YOU NEED TO GO AND TAKE YOUR BLOODY LICENSE FEE WITH YOU.
steveandrews
5 months ago
The upper echelon of the BBC were made aware of this gross breach of trust in May.They realised the severity of this incident and the only possible options were to resign or to hang on in the vein hope this would never surface. Davie chose the latter. The key point is how have people with such extreme views and bias infiltrated the BBC? Davie’s resignation will do nothing to alleviate the unaccountable nature of this publicly funded organisation.
He’ll be the Head of the Air Traffic Control Network or the National Trust in about 6 hours on another seven figure salary..
RTSC
5 months ago
They should have been sacked, along with the rest of the Executive Team.
Gezza England
5 months ago
Here is why we cannot expect any change at the BBC.
Chairman of the BBC – Shamir Shah born in India.
Controller of Radio 4 – Mohit Bakaya born in in India to the same mother as Shamir Shah.
Chief People Officer – Uzair Qadeer born in Pakistan.
Global HR Director for BBC News – Irene Asare born in Ghana.
Under the last two the BBC has 50:20:12 employee strategy. 50% females, 20% ethnics, 12% disabled.
And another reason is that neither Davie nor Turness have shown any contrition or the remotest understanding that THEY made the mistakes as they hide behind the corporate WE.
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Shame
Mistakes were made
Lessons will be learned
A more fitting punishment for them would have been for them to see their evil empire dismantled by the next Reform government
Funny, BBC Verify (falsify) failed to apply its usual rigour to the Panorama (mistake? Don’t think so) coverage.
Surely, BBC should now leave, or be kicked out of the TNI (trusted news initiative), as it clearly can’t be trusted, and their DG resigning won’t change their institutional and editorial bias one iota.
Can we now expect free debate and unbiased coverage of the climate con, vaccine injuries or anything else? Of course not, it’s only when the coverup fails they show any contrition or regret.
Their charter renewal should be declined, but Labour won’t do that! Scrap the licence fee and either dismantle it all, or force it to operate as a commercial organisation.
I theory it should be worth a lot of money were we to privatise it. In practice I believe that whatever the ongoing business is worth is negated by the pension liability.
The numpties on the Labour Party front bench are too dense to see that closing the BBC down will actually win them more votes.
No, the TNI is exactly the right place for it – its continued presence with this much egg on its face shows the TNI up as exactly what it is.
It was no mistake. Some Far Left bint was on the Late Show with Ben and Bev and fair play to them for laughing when this airhead said that it was standard journalistic practice to make a clip out of different parts. The sad thing must be that she thought this was a true and a good response.
Fahima Mahomed had the cheek to try and defend this as normal editorial choices being made
so she was admitting that distortion is normal at the BBC?
No one is this country has the power to change a thing. Not a thing. Just look at the past fifteen years.
“It helps make the UK a special place; overwhelmingly kind, tolerant and curious.” No it does not, quite the reverse; intolerant, misinformed, needlessly frightened and anxious and thoroughly unBritish. They should be broken up, sold off and the word “British” reclaimed from their bastardised branding. And the consumers should decide where to spend their media money instead of being taxed on penalty of jail time.
No doubt they’ll fail upwards, pensions intact.
But it’s merely deflection rather than any sort of solution.
It was clearly an approved way of doing things. Who actually made the edit and on whose authority? Which people made it happen? What is it about their culture that makes them willing to do this?
Their accusations of misinformation, disinformation and fake news will be much harder for them to maintain now, a big win for those wanting just the truth and free speech.
I learnt about that on GBN this evening. https://www.gbnews.com/news/bbc-boss-tim-davie-resigns-amid-systemic-bias-allegations It was actual news, and took up the thick end of an hour this evening.
BBC clearly trying to put a finger in the leaky dam.
The whole organisation is rotten from top to bottom.
Davis and Turness will be ‘recycled’ to another establishment position, and two more establishment clones will take the vacated posts.
I agree. The whole organization is rotten, from top to bottom.
Nobody, absolutely nobody is employed by the BBC in any position higher than a janitor, unless they wholeheartedly subscribe to cultural Marxist ideology.
It has been known for decades that their entire recruitment process is carefully designed to filter out anybody who does not sign up to the leftist guardianista mindset.
A serpent with many heads is the BBC.
I really hope nobody thinks this will make any difference to anything
A newsreader who corrected “pregnant people” to “women” was rebuked yet many news readers show their opinions of people and issues by the tone of voice or their facial expressions. Fiona Bruce was a very bad example.
Yes, it’s certainly karmic;
“In case you are wondering what is going on in the UK, the very same media organisation, the BBC, that routinely accuses people who simply hold different views of ‘misinformation’ is now imploding because it has been caught spreading … misinformation.”
Matt Goodwin.
Yes, indeed.
They have one of their self-aggrandizing adverts before the news:
(serious voice): Misinformation… You think you are winning… (naff computer generated images with Bill Gates).
And then telling us how we can trust the BBC because they work they and night to bring you the news… that you can trust.
Haha.
Perhaps they should get rid of the DEI hires, that may make a difference.
Keep in mind that this is an organization that has an entire department called “BBC Verify”. Yet somehow, just somehow they managed to falsify a speech made by someone they really don’t like.
The BBC – as though Joseph Goebbels and Andrei Zhdanov came back to life as a single person, and then manifested themselves as an organisation. Scary.
Donald Trump should revoke visas for any BBC-ers intending to visit USA for next year’s football World Cup. Of course, BBC coverage of the men’s game would expect coverage by the usual good number of woman-people, full DEI participation and over-paid wife-beaters (who once kicked a football). Seriously, Donald, your country doesn’t need them.
I predict that Emily Maitlis will be the next DG.
Now cancel their gold-plated pensions and give them their contributions back.
The payoffs for these two and their pension payments will a lot of money.
Looking on the bright side, the beeb has issued a masterclass on how to edit footage so as to change the meaning of the contributors. The technique is probably often used when some kind of interview is used, but in this case it was a political speech by Donald Trump; you couldn’t make it up, if it was a lecture to a bunch of students!
Resigned? Or get the sack. Wonderful to see them pushed. Now if the president could do something similar to American broadcasters.
When all the immediate mud slinging has died down I hope it will have the long term effect of abolishing the totally out dated licence fee. When their charter comes up for renewal in 2027 it simply becomes another subscription channel we have a choice to subscribe to or not. It can then present whatever political woke stance it wants and nobody is going to jump up and down about it. It will make a good left wing balance to GB News’ right wing views for example, and nobody will be fooled anymore. And in fairness, I’d subscribe for a lot of their excellent non news content, dramas, nature programmes etc. I haven’t watched their news since Covid and their refusal to discuss alternatives to the official narrative.
“There have been some mistakes made and as Director-General I have to take ultimate responsibility.”——OH NO YOU DON’T MATE. —-A MISTAKE IS WHEN YOU DON’T MEAN TO DO SOMETHING.—–THIS WAS DELIBERATE. —–THIS IS WHY YOU ARE HEAD OF THE BRITISH BRAINWASHING CORPORATION AND IT IS THE WHOLE LOT OF YOU NEED TO GO AND TAKE YOUR BLOODY LICENSE FEE WITH YOU.
The upper echelon of the BBC were made aware of this gross breach of trust in May.They realised the severity of this incident and the only possible options were to resign or to hang on in the vein hope this would never surface. Davie chose the latter. The key point is how have people with such extreme views and bias infiltrated the BBC? Davie’s resignation will do nothing to alleviate the unaccountable nature of this publicly funded organisation.
Davie thanked the BBC board for their unanimous support so they should all resign as well.
He’ll be the Head of the Air Traffic Control Network or the National Trust in about 6 hours on another seven figure salary..
They should have been sacked, along with the rest of the Executive Team.
Here is why we cannot expect any change at the BBC.
Chairman of the BBC – Shamir Shah born in India.
Controller of Radio 4 – Mohit Bakaya born in in India to the same mother as Shamir Shah.
Chief People Officer – Uzair Qadeer born in Pakistan.
Global HR Director for BBC News – Irene Asare born in Ghana.
Under the last two the BBC has 50:20:12 employee strategy. 50% females, 20% ethnics, 12% disabled.
And another reason is that neither Davie nor Turness have shown any contrition or the remotest understanding that THEY made the mistakes as they hide behind the corporate WE.
It’s not about “mistakes” nor is it about bias and balance, it’s about lies.
The BBC is an habitual liar.