{"id":35293,"date":"2025-11-14T09:41:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=35293"},"modified":"2025-11-14T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:56:45","slug":"bbc-apologises-to-trump-over-panorama-edit-but-refuses-to-pay-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/bbc-apologises-to-trump-over-panorama-edit-but-refuses-to-pay-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC apologises to Trump over Panorama edit but refuses to pay compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>BBC News : The BBC has apologised to US President Donald Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced parts of his 6 January 2021 speech together, but rejected his demands for compensation.<\/p>\n<p>The corporation said the edit had given &#8220;the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action&#8221; and said it would not show the 2024 programme again.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Trump have threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn (\u00a3759m) in damages unless the corporation issues a retraction, apologises and compensates him.<\/p>\n<p>BBC News has approached the White House for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The apology comes hours after a second similarly edited clip, broadcast on Newsnight in 2022, was revealed by the Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>In its Corrections and Clarifications section, published on Thursday evening, the BBC said the Panorama programme had been reviewed after criticism of how Trump&#8217;s speech had been edited.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We accept that our edit unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech, rather than excerpts from different points in the speech, and that this gave the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for the BBC have written to President Trump&#8217;s legal team in response to a letter received on Sunday, a BBC spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BBC chair Samir Shah has separately sent a personal letter to the White House making clear to President Trump that he and the corporation are sorry for the edit of the president&#8217;s speech on 6 January 2021, which featured in the programme,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>They added: &#8220;While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fallout from the scandal led to the resignations of BBC director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News : The BBC has apologised to US President Donald Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced parts of his 6 January 2021 speech together, but rejected his demands for compensation. The corporation said the edit had given &#8220;the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action&#8221; and said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35295,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35293\/revisions\/35295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}