Oblivious BBC Executives Thought Everything Was Perfect – Until Reality Hit Hard

Table of Content

• Ugly Chickens Come Home to Roost
• Apology to Trump
• Bias Issues at the BBC
• State of Denial
• Conclusion

This week marks a significant moment for the BBC, as numerous serious issues have come to light.

It may be the most challenging week for the corporation in the last two decades, if not longer.

Chairman Samir Shah is set to publicly apologize to the US government. Tim Davie was aware of the issues upon taking over but was unable to address them.Credit: PA

Think the situation was dire? Just take a look at this: the head of news has departed.

It is only a matter of time before the deputy CEO of news follows suit. There are consequences everywhere.

This outcome was inevitable. The BBC’s arrogance and evident left-wing bias have finally led to its downfall. Can we hope for change moving forward?

Let’s revisit the events that brought us to this point.

The corporation has been battling multiple crises.

First, Chairman Samir Shah is preparing to apologize publicly to the US government.

Apology to Trump

The Panorama program from earlier this year.

This made it appear as though he was inciting his supporters to storm the Capitol and create chaos in January 2021. In reality, he called for a peaceful protest.

Even more shocking than this blatant bias being aired is the fact that BBC executives have been in denial about it for over a week.

Once again, when a major issue arose, the executives—earning around £400,000 per year—turned a blind eye and acted as if it wasn’t happening.

The troubling part is that it was happening. And it was not the unfavored press that highlighted the issue, but the BBC’s own former adviser on editorial standards, Michael Prescott.

He provided a report detailing “shocking” instances of bias among the corporation’s journalists. The Panorama program was just the beginning.

But let’s focus on that for a moment. When Prescott raised the issue, the deputy CEO of news and senior controller of news content, Jonathan Munro, suggested it was simply standard practice.

Standard practice! He was still clinging to that belief last week. I discussed the matter on my Saturday morning Times Radio program (10 am-1 pm—tune in, folks) and everyone agreed that it was an unacceptable piece of journalism.

Then I received the following text from a former BBC executive: “I spent many years at the BBC reviewing edits to determine whether the meaning was altered.

Anything that questioned the woke orthodoxy on transgender issues was suppressed.

Rod Liddle

This is fundamental. You simply don’t do that! It’s ingrained in you from your first days of training at the BBC. It doesn’t matter whether Trump desired insurrection or not.

“It is completely unacceptable to manipulate what was said to make someone express what you think they meant.

“Yes, merging two clips is a necessary television technique, but we all know it’s never done to distort the truth. I can’t believe this even needs to be stated.”

Exactly. And now, very reluctantly, the executives have admitted their mistake, and poor Samir—a decent man—will have to apologize to Trump.

Now, all of this is troubling enough. However, Prescott’s report also included other serious accusations. None of which were taken seriously by the BBC.

In fact, that was one of Prescott’s main grievances—and likely a reason for his resignation.

The executives were living in a bubble, convinced that everything was perfectly fine. There is an obsessive pro-Trans lobby within the corporation. Why does the BBC have an LGBT unit? Why not treat everyone equally?

It has been suggested that they censored stories critical of the most extreme ideas of trans activists.

The BBC is obliged to apologize to Trump.Credit: Getty The ineffective head of news, Deborah Turness, has also departed.Credit: Getty

Any criticism of the woke orthodoxy on these issues was silenced.

Then there’s the BBC’s Arabic Service, frequently referred to by listeners as Hamas Live! The corporation has had to apologize and make corrections twice a week for the bias and inaccuracies propagated by these overt Palestinian sympathizers.

Twice a week, during the two-year conflict between Israel and Hamas, the BBC disseminated falsehoods to