"It was a coup, and worse than that, it was an inside job. There were people inside the BBC, very close to the board on the board, who have systematically undermined Tim Davie and his senior team over a period of [time] and this has been going on for a long time. What happened yesterday didn't just happen in isolation, Yelland, who also co-presents the BBC podcast When it Hits the Fan, said."
"What has happened here is there was a failure of governance. I don't blame the chairman [Samir Shah] as an individual, but the job of the chair of any organisation, a company including the BBC is to keep their CEO, their top man or woman, in post or fire them. And that has not happened, because Tim Davie was not fired. He walked and so there was, that is the definition of, a failure of governance."
"The paper reported a leaked record of the findings of a former independent external adviser to its editorial guidelines and standards committee, Michael Prescott, who left his role in the summer. He had criticised the editing of a speech by Donald Trump in an edition of Panorama, which he claimed made it appear that Trump had encouraged the US Capitol attack."
A former editor accused insiders close to the BBC board of systematically undermining the director general and head of news, describing the departures as an inside coup. The critic said governance failed because the chair did not remove the CEO but the director general walked. The resignations followed external pressure from the White House and rightwing commentators after the Daily Telegraph published leaked findings from Michael Prescott. Prescott criticised a Panorama edit of a Donald Trump speech, saying spliced sections made it appear Trump encouraged the US Capitol attack and omitted his call for peaceful protest.
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