Why have BBC bosses resigned over a Trump speech edit?

"The memo was from ex-adviser Michael Prescott, a former journalist who was an independent consultant to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines and Standards Board for three years before leaving in June. He claimed that editors of a 2024 BBC Panorama documentary had spliced two parts of Trump's speech together so it appeared that he had actively encouraged the Capitol Hill riots of January 6, 2021, which followed his 2020 election defeat."

"Trump responded to the pair's resignation on Sunday night, calling Davie and Turness very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a presidential election, in a post on his Truth Social platform. Davie said he took ultimate responsibility for mistakes made, and had decided to resign after reflecting on the very intense personal and professional demands of managing this role over many years in these febrile times."

"The resignations of Davie and Turness followed controversy over a BBC Panorama documentary called Trump: A Second Chance?, which was broadcast one week before the 2024 US presidential election. A clip from the programme appears to show two different parts of Trump's January 6, 2021 speech joined together into one sequence. In the episode, Trump is shown as saying: We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell."

Tim Davie and Deborah Turness resigned from their BBC leadership roles after a leaked memo accused BBC editors of splicing parts of Donald Trump's January 6, 2021 speech in a 2024 Panorama documentary. The memo came from ex-adviser Michael Prescott, who had served as an independent consultant to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines and Standards Board. The Panorama episode aired one week before the 2024 US presidential election and included a clip that appears to join two different parts of Trump's speech. Trump publicly criticized the resignations and called the executives dishonest. Davie said he accepted ultimate responsibility and cited intense personal and professional demands in deciding to step down.

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