An internal memo from Michael Prescott, who served as independent external adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee (EGSC), regarding Panorama’s programme on January 6th:
“The spliced together version of Trump’s comments aired by Panorama made it seem that he said: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country anymore.”
In reality, the first part of Trump’s speech: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you,” came 15 minutes into the speech. The second half of the sentence that was aired by Panorama, “and we fight. We fight like hell…” came 54 minutes later.
Fifteen minutes into the speech, Trump actually said: “We are gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
It was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it. The fact that he did not explicitly exhort supporters to go down and fight at Capitol Hill was one of the reaosns there were no federal charges for incitement to riot.
That was not the end of Panorama’s distortion of the day’s events.
On Jan 6, 2021, the so-called Proud Boys, Trump’s supporters, marched to Capitol Hill before Trump started speaking.”
The memo is part of a larger report on bias which is leaking into SW1. This is the reporting that single mothers are prosecuted for failing to pay for…
            




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