"The Guardian has been told the board member that “led the charge” over the letter’s claims was Robbie Gibb, Theresa May’s former communications chief who also helped to found the rightwing news channel GB News.(…)
But many say the events of the past week also have to be seen in the context of a wider political effort to shift the BBC’s reporting to the right on key issues.(…)"
Note: apperantly this is what the Guardian was told by BBC insiders, so I marked this as [Opinion].
alt source Reuters
We absolutely must have standards that are higher and better than the far right. They are not what we want to compare with. This splice edit is fuel for the arguments of the far right. Shit like this is to be avoided.
I was kinda hoping that a personal note within the point that it was spliced was clear enough that we need to do better than them. Alas, here i am agreeing that we need higher standards than the far right. And that it was a dumb move given that there were plenty of other things they could have done. Like showing a collage of his twitter posts that were obvious.
In either way, that train left for now, we can just hope that other people in that business learn from that and that they don’t repeat that mistake.