BBC chairman apologises for misleading edit of Trump speech

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00:00The apologizing is for the way the team edited President Trump's speech to his supporters

00:09on January the 6th.

00:11It was public.

00:12We discussed it.

00:13And indeed, the reservations and there were some people on the board who felt very strongly

00:19it was wrong.

00:20Others defended it.

00:21It was discussed at Panorama, so they knew about that, but I think the point I'm making

00:26is in hindsight, we should have acted earlier and taken a more formal position on it, which

00:33we've done more recently.

00:35Part of the problem is the way it was edited, but what was the consequence of that?

00:40I think we just needed to go into a bit more detail, which is what we finally did, which

00:45was the impression it left on the British audience, as opposed to the intention of the programme

00:51which was to give the British audience some understanding of how President Trump's supporters

00:58was reading it.

00:59Now, that's quite a complicated set of thoughts, and we need to get that right.

01:05Let's be clear about the role of the board.

01:06We are a non-executive board, ten of us are non-execs, four execs.

01:10The job of the board is to review BBC output and to maintain and to represent the public interest.

01:16It is not our job to determine who or who should not be the director of news, that is the job

01:22of the director general.

01:23It is for him to say and for him to determine, and that's the only position I take and I

01:29insist that the board takes.

01:31I did not want to lose Tim Davey.

01:34I think Tim Davey has been an outstanding director general, and may I say, nor did any

01:40member of the board.

01:41We were upset by the decision.

01:45I do understand it at a very human level.

01:48Tim has gone through a lot of attacks, it's been relentless, it's also a very, very difficult

01:54job.

01:55We do take it really seriously.

01:57I mean, there are real issues here, they're over a three year period, and just let me say,

02:05the BBC in those three years has produced hundreds and hundreds of hours of outstanding journalism,

02:11television, on audio, on online.

02:14We have, and we do a great job there, but inevitably we make mistakes.

02:20And what he's identified are mistakes, either individual ones or ones that point to underlying

02:25problems, which we accept.

02:26But the statistics say that the British people trust BBC News more than anything else.

02:33If there was this consistent institutional bias, do you think we'd have those figures?

02:37We wouldn't.

02:38So I don't think that's right.

02:41That's not to say that there aren't real problems, real issues, both underlying and specific.

02:49I don't think there's a systemic bias in anti-Israel.

02:51I mean, there are loads of arguments that suggest almost the opposite, you know.

02:56I think that we have, we have issues, as we, I've talked about underlying problems, and we've

03:04made changes in leadership trying to deal with that, but I think, you know, it's worth

03:10talking about the scale of the BBC and how much it does, and how much excellent, impartial

03:16journalism it does.

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