The BBC goes the way of shag carpeting

The BBC goes the way of shag carpeting
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The Washington Post
By Joseph C SternbergFrom afar, it might look as though the crisis engulfing the British Broadcasting Corp. is only about the dishonest editing of a clip of a President Trump speech from 2021. Oh no, friends. You’re witnessing the meltdown of a core institution of British society.The Beeb has been rocked by the leak to the Telegraph newspaper of an internal memo detailing rampant political bias. The Trump angle arises from an October 2024 edition of the “Panorama” news program purporting to show Mr Trump on Jan 6, 2021, u...

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