Britain’s BBC said on Thursday it was looking into fresh allegations, published in The Telegraph newspaper, over the editing by another of its programmes of a speech by US President Donald Trump.
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The British Broadcasting Corporation has been plunged into its biggest crisis in decades after two senior leaders resigned following accusations of bias, including in the way a speech by Trump was edited in a Panorama documentary.
Trump has threatened a US$1 billion lawsuit against the public broadcaster over that film.
The Telegraph, which initially broke that story, reported on Thursday that another BBC programme, Newsnight, also selectively edited footage of the same speech, in a report broadcast in June 2022, two years before Panorama’s edit.
The paper said the Newsnight edit was similar to the Panorama version.
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“The BBC holds itself to the highest editorial standards,” a BBC spokesperson said in response to the latest Telegraph report.