Jorge Bonilla wrote a story right here on Sunday in regards to the BBC bosses, Director Basic Tim Davie and Information CEO Deborah Turness, being compelled to resign attributable to their group doctoring a clip of President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021.
So how did Politico cowl this scandal? By treading calmly on the main points whereas emphasizing that “the most recent disaster marks a major escalation in assaults on the BBC from the best.”
As well as, strongly implied that the Trump administration’s response to the BBC scandal displayed unseemly hubris as you possibly can see within the title of their Sunday story by Matt Honeycombe-Foster, “Trump gloats as BBC boss quits over protection ‘errors’.”
The Trump “gloating” as portrayed by Politico might be seen straight away within the physique of the story by the second paragraph:
The top of Britain’s publicly-funded broadcaster and its high information govt resigned Sunday after days of stress over its protection of Donald Trump.
In a transfer swiftly celebrated by the U.S. president, BBC Director-Basic Tim Davie and CEO of Information Deborah Turness each introduced their exits from the media establishment.
The resignations — which symbolize a second of disaster on the U.Ok.’s principal public service broadcaster — come after days of torrid headlines for the BBC over an episode of its flagship Panorama documentary present.
And, in response to Politico, it was not solely Trump who supposedly acted poorly but additionally White Home Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt who had the gall to haven’t solely “seized” (however not pounced?) on the scandal however compounded the grievous breach of liberal etiquette as a result of she “appeared jubilant.”
Trump’s White Home spokesperson Karoline Leavitt seized on the row in an interview with the Telegraph newspaper on Friday, straight accusing the broadcaster of being “purposefully dishonest” and peddling “whole, one hundred pc pretend information.”
The White Home press chief appeared jubilant Sunday, posting screenshotted information protection of each her remarks and Davie’s subsequent resignation on X alongside the caption “Shot: … Chaser.”
Shot: Chaser: pic.twitter.com/n0U08PnUJb
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) November 9, 2025
Politico additionally instructed that the scandal was the results of of assaults from political components for whom they assume their readership dislikes as a lot as they do:
However the newest disaster marks a major escalation in assaults on the BBC from the best — and comes simply as ministers put together to assessment the broadcaster’s funding mannequin.
Final week the right-leaning Telegraph newspaper printed a memo written by Michael Prescott, the BBC’s former requirements advisor, overlaying a spread of alleged failings in its content material. That included its protection of transgender points, the conflict in Gaza, and Trump’s presidency.
Essentially the most laughable factor of the Politico story comes on the finish the place Honeycombe-Foster consists of an opinion that portrays the BBC as unfairly biased to the best:
Ed Davey, chief of the centrist Liberal Democrats — who has himself taken repeated photographs on the BBC and complained that it provides an excessive amount of airtime to right-wing events — known as for the outfit to “flip a brand new leaf, rebuild belief and never give in to the likes of Nigel Farage who need to destroy it.”
Yup! It is smart (no less than to Politico). The identical BBC whose bosses had been compelled to give up attributable to their group doctoring clips of Trump someway secretly leans to the best.
