The Head of the BBC and Its Head of News Both Resign In Wake of Revelations They Deliberately Pushed Fake News About Trump's Role in the (Also Fake) J6 Insurrection

The BBC Panorama ran stealth-edited video to make it appear that Trump was urging his followers to go to the Capitol and "fight like hell." The claim being made was that Trump told them to riot.

It was a literal stitch-up -- they framed Trump by stitching together different speeches.

The BBC announces the BBC has launched a coup against the BBC

Traditionally, you know there’s been a coup when a man in military fatigues turns up on the state broadcaster to announce that there hasn’t been a coup.

So when the familiar voice of the state broadcaster, that of the BBC’s Nick Robinson, keeps waking you up at 7am to warn that a coup at the BBC is under way, you know it’s probably OK to go back to sleep.

Not just OK, but positively encouraged. If you try to actually understand what’s going on at the BBC you might not sleep again until you’ve sat in a dark room for quite some time, with a wet towel wrapped around your head.

All we can know for sure, at this point, is that the director-general, Tim Davie, and the chief executive of BBC News, Deborah Turness, have resigned. Technically this was because last year, without anyone actually noticing until now, someone on BBC Panorama casually snipped out a minor, inconsequential, 50-minute-long segment of President Trump’s notorious speech on January 6, 2021, and welded together the front end and back end of what was left. What was broadcast was a cut-and-shut of a speech, which, with terrible inevitability, has now been involved in a horrific accident.

But it’s far more complicated than that. In fact if the BBC would like, at this point, to produce some genuine public service broadcasting, it could do worse than commission an eight-part series explaining the coup at the BBC, ideally featuring Professor Brian Cox, possibly standing on the slopes of a supervolcano on one of Saturn’s more hostile moons.

The main reason the coup is hard to understand is because the BBC is, according to itself, in on it. The implication from the BBC’s Nick Robinson, made live on the BBC Today programme, seems to be that the BBC’s Sir Robbie Gibb wants to bring down the BBC. Sensing opportunity, the BBC board, which gives the appearance of hating the BBC, wouldn’t let the BBC just admit it made a mistake and move on, and so the BBC has forced itself into full-blown crisis instead.

In one grim way, suddenly it all makes sense. For a lot of the last year, a lot of people have been looking at the BBC and just asking, why? Why did it accidentally have a documentary on Gaza narrated by the son of a Hamas official? Why did it accidentally broadcast an apparent Hamas rally live from the West Holts stage of Glastonbury? Well now we know. They were all in on it. Mission accomplished. Bob Vylan has pulled off the unthinkable. 

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