BBC ‘can’t be held to ransom,’ says Dimbleby after Trump Panorama row | News

David Dimbleby said the BBC “cannot be held to ransom” after Donald Trump threatened to take legal action against the broadcaster following selective editing of his speech outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Panorama section.

A leaked memo spliced ​​together clips of Mr. Trump’s speech to suggest he told supporters he would march with them to the U.S. Capitol to “fight like hell.”

Director-General Tim Davie and BBC News head Deborah Turness resigned over the episode airing the week before the 2024 US election.

The former Question Time presenter told Channel 4: “I’m a huge supporter of everything the BBC does and to fall prey to something like this seems ridiculous to me.”

“I don’t want anyone to ask, ‘What went wrong?’ … Because a large organization like the BBC cannot be forced to pay ransom because of two or three events.”