The speech spliced two segments of the President’s address together that were uttered almost an hour apart, a decision a BBC internal memo concedes was “completely misleading”.
Revelations the ABC’s Four Corners program similarly edited the address have fuelled concerns over the public broadcaster’s ability to meet its own impartiality standards.The section when the President encouraged his supporters to “cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women” was cut from the Sarah Ferguson-led program, Chris Kenny revealed on Sky News.
Prior to her analysis of the final days of the Trump administration, Ferguson on the same program took aim at Mr Trump’s links with Russia, ties she hypothesised delivered him the White House in 2016. That thesis was discredited by successive US Special Counsel investigations.
The public broadcaster has seen a collapse in the public perception of its accuracy and impartiality, according to its most recent annual report, having been plagued with a series of editorial failings over recent years.
A 19-page dossier sent to the BBC board that accused the broadcaster of doctoring Trump’s speech, failing to effectively prosecute Hamas propaganda, and presenting one-sided pro-trans arguments to its viewers is similar to criticisms levelled against the ABC in recent years.
Last year, its managing director was forced to apologise to former commando Heston Russell and members of the 2nd Commando Regiment after extra gunshots were edited into a news report claiming to show an Australian soldier firing at unarmed civilians.
An inquiry into the altered audio, conducted by the broadcaster’s former editorial policy director Alan Sunderland, found “no evidence of any intent to mislead”, instead pinning blame on lawyers.
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