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Oops 🎶They Did It Again🎶

Newsnight accused of selectively editing same Trump Capitol riots speech as PanoramaThe Telegraph said it had found an edition of Newsnight from 2022 which contained a splicing together of the speech in a similar way. It did not appear that the edit alerted viewers to the cut.The Newsnight edit spliced together a section of Trump’s speech on the day of the riots, in January 2021, in which he urged supporters to walk to the Capitol building, with a later segment of the address in which he urged them to “fight like hell”.A former White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, criticised the BBC on air at the time for splicing together the footage.“Your video actually spliced together the presentation,” he said. “That line about ‘and we fight and fight like hell’ is actually later in the speech.”A BBC spokesperson said: “The BBC holds itself to the highest editorial standards. This matter has been brought to our attention and we are now looking into it.”https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/13/newsnight-accused-of-selectively-editing-same-trump-capitol-riots-speech-as-panorama

Sue Hammond ● 8h13 Comments

Ignoring your childish taunt🙄 your truth isn’t the actual truth because it wasn’t a mistake.  Twice done, deliberately, on different programmes.

Sue Hammond ● 1h

In fact, if the BBC painted Trump as anything other than a vindictive, petty, waffling man-baby then, in my humble opinion, they would not be accurately reporting the truth.

Gerry Boyce ● 1h

Of course the BBC would, because it is the truth. You can’t blame the BBC  for showing Trump as a dick; that is just who he is, and the BBC needs to reflect that. The technical omission of not inserting a clear junction between clips of the same speech was just that, a technical mistake. It didn’t alter the fact that Trump denied the results of the election, or stoked up an angry mob to descend on the Capitol. It doesn’t alter the fact that Trump delayed calling off his supporters for a long time nor the fact that he pardoned and released people convicted of violence that day. Res ipso facto!

Gerry Boyce ● 2h

“ The BBC apologised for an error in the editing but denied it was malicious.”Well it would, wouldn’t it?

Sue Hammond ● 2h

Mr Hawkes.  The BBC apologised for an error in the editing but denied it was malicious. They pointed out the programme was balanced by including pro Trump commentators.  The clip with the edit was claimed to be only 1w seconds in an hour long programme.  As I noted previously,  we can't verify that as to my knowledge there's no way to legally view it now but, obvious,  if it did go to court it would be shown in evidence. 

Michael Ixer ● 3h

Mr Hawkes. Not diversionary, according to  news reports (I think originating from Truth Social) he's saying Epstein is a Democrat problem and mentioning ex President Clinton. I expect he'll get back to the BBC when he remembers.  All US friends back home so purely my own thoughts. Sad thing is, Trump seems to have forgotten Ukraine - and although he's got a ceasefire in Gaza and bodies of hostages are being returned as they're retrieved from the rubble - it looks like Hamas are back in control there, and West Bank settlers seem out of control so long term peace seems a difficult proposition.Perhaps he needs to concentrate more and speak less?

Michael Ixer ● 3h

Mr IxerMore diversionary 'comic' posts from you after giving us all a more lessons on US law as described by your US lawyer friend I assume.

John Hawkes ● 3h

Ms Holliday'I do not think the BBC attempted to defame Trump.  He did so himself with no helping hand'.You must be the only person that thinks so.And if you do believe it, why is the BBC offering a formal apology for the broadcast ?

John Hawkes ● 3h

I am interested to know why you think the BBC deliberately doctored the tapes twice, in different broadcasts, Ivonne?

Sue Hammond ● 4h

UK lawmakers obviously view timing as important as they set a 12 month limit for initiating such cases. It can't have affected President Trump too much as he wasn't aware of it after all this time until the Telegraph pointed it out. Apprently the badly edited portion of the programme was only twelve seconds and overall the programme was balanced by including pro Trump commentators. Obviously, the programme is no longer available to verify that.I rather agree with Armando Iannucci's comment on Strong Message Here: let's hope this doesn't mean they'll be repeating Trump’s speeches in full! Perhaps if the rambling, repetitive old windbag kept his speeches to a sensible length there'd be less need to edit them so much and a lower possibility of errors occurring ...Anyway, I expect he and his lawyers are busy scanning the dump of papers from the Epstein estate at the moment ... time to move on now he's had his apology. 

Michael Ixer ● 5h

Hello Sue,Interesting you think the timelines are irrelevant.I do not think the BBC attempted to defame Trump.  He did so himself with no helping hand.

Ivonne Holliday ● 7h

@IvonneThe timelines are irrelevant!!!  The facts are that the BBC doctored the tapes in both broadcasts with attempt to defame Trump….  Hmmmmmm

Sue Hammond ● 7h

Hello Sue,Have they done it again???  I understood that the Newsnight programme was aired shortly after the speech was delivered....  It is highly surprising that, for both programmes, the accusations come either one year after the event (Panorama) and nearly 20 months after Newsnight was aired....  Hmmmmmm

Ivonne Holliday ● 7h