The BBC is preparing to issue a formal apology for doctoring a President Donald Trump speech in a documentary — a bombshell admission that has ignited calls for the network’s top executive to resign.
BBC Chairman Samir Shah will send a letter to Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Monday admitting that the documentary “misled viewers” by manipulating footage of Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, remarks — editing together separate parts of his speech to make it appear he urged supporters to storm the Capitol, London’s Telegraph reported Sunday.
The apology follows revelations from an 8,000-word internal dossier written by Michael Prescott, a former BBC standards adviser, who accused senior editors of covering up the deception.
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