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LONDON (AP) — The BBC’s top leader and head of its news division resigned over criticism of how the broadcaster edited U.S President Donald Trump’s speech before some of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Here’s a look at some controversies or scandals that have forced out some of the BBC’s leaders:

November 2012: George Entwistle resigned as director-general over the Newsnight program’s decision not to run a report that entertainer Jimmy Savile, one of its most popular presenters who had died the previous year, was a serial sexual abuser of young women. The broadcaster had also wrongly linked a prominent politician to child sex abuse. ...

April 2023: BBC Chairman Richard Sharp quit after a report found he failed to disclose a potential conflict of interest over his role in arranging a loan more than two years earlier for Prime Minister Boris Johnson. ...

2021: Davie apologized after a report found that Martin Bashir had used fake bank records to deceive Princess Diana’s brother to land his explosive interview with her in 1995. ...

July 2023: Huw Edwards, the highest paid news anchor, was suspended with full pay over allegations he paid a teen for sexually explicit photos. He later pleaded guilty and was given a suspended prison sentence ...

June 2025: BBC is condemned for livestreaming a performance by rap punk duo Bob Vylan, who led crowds at this year’s Glastonbury Festival in chanting “death” to the Israeli military. ...

October 2025: Britain’s media regulator sanctioned the BBC for a “materially misleading” documentary on the lives of children in Gaza because it failed to disclose that the father of the teen narrator held a position in the Hamas administration.

OneGrassRoot (23,886 posts)

Okay, I'll go into the lion's den...

because I think things are likely to get more and more tense here after the events of yesterday.

Whenever people post complaints, borne of frustration, about the Democrats in Congress and Dem leaders, they are often met with "What do you want them to DO??? They have no power right now. The GOP controls the narrative and the media."

If only Chuck the schmuck knew how to cook a cheeseburger and didn’t put cheese on the raw hamburger patty, things might’ve turned out better

There might be a tiny, tiny bit of truth in that long-winded post. It probably doesn't help the Democrats to have Chuck Schumer, possibly the worst public speaker in American politics today, as the face of the party responsible for the shutdown.

Other than that, it's a pile of nonsense. The Democrats are already obnoxiously loud, have plenty of allies in the media, and are incapable of being consistent (or humorous, for the matter).