Thread by @HonestReporting

1/ 🚨 BBC in Crisis.

Two top execs – Tim Davie & Deborah Turness – forced to quit after a bombshell dossier exposed bias and even doctored footage of Trump.

You’d think that would spark real change, right?

WRONG. 🧵🎥

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Instead of accountability, BBC’s highest-paid “journalists” – and even some of its famous former ones – are playing the victims.

From Jeremy Bowen to Emily Maitlis, the reactions say it all. 👇

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First up: @jeremybowen.

Rather than own up to the damage he’s done to the BBC’s credibility, he previously said he “doesn’t regret one thing” about his false reporting of the Al-Ahli Hospital blast in 2023.

That lie spread across the world. No regrets. No shame. 🎥

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And this isn’t Bowen’s first brush with misinformation.

In 2024, he falsely told viewers the ICJ had ruled there was a “plausible case of genocide” in Gaza.

Even ICJ president Judge Joan Donoghue said that’s wrong. Months later, the BBC quietly “clarified.”

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Then there’s former BBC star Emily Maitlis, now on @LBC.

Asked about the BBC’s Trump “splice” scandal – where footage was edited to make him look like he incited the Capitol riot – she said critics should “take a step back.”

Seriously? Accountability isn’t optional.

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Veteran @BBC journalist @JohnSimpsonNews?
He mocked Trump’s threat to sue the BBC over its maliciously edited footage of his Capitol speech.

Instead of introspection, more smugness.

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Even Tim Davie – the man who just fell on his sword – went on the defensive.

He dismissed criticism of BBC bias as “narratives given by our enemies” and called Turness “a fighter for impartiality.”

Then urged staff to “fight for our journalism.”
Fight for what, exactly?

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This isn’t a few bad apples – it’s rot at the core. 🍎💥
BBC journalists, past and present, still deny there’s any bias.

On Israel, on politics, on Trump – it’s everywhere.

Two resignations won’t save the BBC.
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