00:00The British government has come to the defense of the BBC after allegations of bias from its critics and the threat of a lawsuit from President Donald Trump over the way the broadcaster edited a speech he made after losing the 2020 presidential election.
00:12Critics have demanded an overhaul of the BBC's funding and governance.
00:16At a time when the lines are being dangerously blurred between fact and opinion, news and polemic, the BBC stands apart.
00:25It is a light on the hill for people here and across the world.
00:28Trusted news and high quality programming is essential to our democratic and cultural life.
00:34All of us in this House should value it, uphold it and fiercely defend it.
00:39The BBC apologized for misleading editing of a speech Trump delivered on January 6th, 2021, before a crowd of his supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington.
00:47It spliced together three quotes from two sections of his speech, delivered almost an hour apart, into what appeared to be one quote in which Trump urged supporters to march with him and fight like hell.
00:56Among the parts cut out was a section where Trump said he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.
01:02A lawyer for President Trump is demanding a retraction, apology and compensation over the allegedly defamatory sequence.
01:08The BBC's top executive, Tim Davey, and head of news, Deborah Ternis, have already both resigned.
01:14And I see the free press, I see the weapon under pressure, I see the weaponization.
01:19I think we've got to fight for our journalism.
01:21Some BBC viewers want the broadcaster to do better.
01:25Well, I actually think it's quite shocking.
01:27It's something that should never have happened.
01:29They need to get their organization sorted so that in the future we can look at the BBC with confidence.
01:41Trump's lawyer said if the BBC doesn't comply, they will face legal action for a billion dollars in damages.
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