BBC会長とニュース責任者が辞任 問題はどこに
the BBC. And after a week of headlines and many behindthe-scenes conversations, a series of Sunday night statements announcing that both the director general and the chief executive of news are resigning. The reason, or at least a major part of the reason, is this panorama broadcast last year. The program about Donald Trump featured this clip of his speech on January the 6th, 2021. We’re going to walk down to the capital and I’ll be there with you and we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore. That sentence was actually from two different sections of Donald Trump’s speech, 54 minutes apart. The first part of the sentence actually ended with this. and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. And an external editorial adviser, Michael Prescott, feels the edit was seriously misleading. In a statement, the director general, Tim Davies, said, “While not being the only reason, the current debate around BBC News has understandably contributed to my decision.” Overall, the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made, and as director general, I have to take ultimate responsibility. and his chief executive of news, Deborah Turner, said, “The ongoing controversy around the panorama on President Trump has reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC, an institution that I love.” While mistakes have been made, I want to be absolutely clear. Recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong. The question is, how did a story in the Telegraph about a 12second clip from a panorama lead to all of this? For many, it’s about how the BBC responded. They’ve known all about this for six months, and they were keeping about it, hoping that it would go away. Instead of going away, it ends up with some incredible reporting by the Davis Telegraph, which has forced this change. The problem is here that they not that they’re institutionally biased, but as an organization, they appear to be somewhat stupid because they make really stupid basic mistakes and then they are hopeless at PR. For Tim Davyy, it’s far from the first headline making crisis. There was the scandal over Hugh Edwards, the longunning drama over Gary Lker, and more recently an apology about a documentary on Gaza in which it was revealed a young narrator was the son of a Hamas official. That’s far from a complete list. the director general of the BBC is the most enormous job and you’re dealing with Master Chef and you’re dealing with Hugh Edwards and you’re dealing with all these other issues that happen and I think it’s almost too much for one person and for the BBC this has happened at a crucial moment. These resignations and their accompanying statements make it clear mistakes, serious mistakes have been made. And also that the reputation and trust in the BBC, especially BBC News, was being damaged. And all of this comes at a crucial moment just as the BBC is about to begin to argue its case for its next charter. I think it leaves the BBC in a very difficult position uh coming up to charter renewal and uh the people who don’t believe in the BBC fundamentally uh will be pleased uh to see these two people go. There’s even been a statement from Donald Trump castigating the BBC saying they were caught doctoring my very good perfect speech of January the 6th. Tim Davy’s resignation the end of a turbulent time in charge. his watch words throughout trust and impartiality. David Silito, BBC News.
BBCのティム・デイヴィー会長とニュース部門トップのデボラ・ターネス最高経営責任者（CEO）が9日、辞任した。ドキュメンタリー番組「パノラマ」について、米連邦議会襲撃事件の前のドナルド・トランプ米大統領の演説に対する編集によって、視聴者に誤った印象を与えたと批判されたのを受けたもの。
就任から5年になるデイヴィー会長は、公共放送のBBCに対する数々の論争や偏向への非難をめぐり、強い圧力に直面していた。
英紙テレグラフは3日、流出したBBCの内部メモの詳細について記事を掲載した。それによると、「パノラマ」はトランプ氏のスピーチの2カ所をひとつにまとめて編集し、同氏が2021年1月の米連邦議会議事堂襲撃事件の暴動を明確に働きかけたように見せたとされる。
BBCをはじめとするイギリス主要報道機関の編集幹部経験者たちは、BBCのこれまでの対応のまずさや、公共放送としての「特許状」更新を控えた現在の立場の難しさを指摘する。
BBCのデイヴィッド・シリトー芸術・メディア担当編集委員が報告する。
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