Outgoing BBC Director-General Tim Davie, who resigned following a scandal over the alleged misleading editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump, told staff on Tuesday the corporation has to “stand up for our journalism” in what he said was a battle against the corporation’s “enemies.”
Davie quit on Sunday following a scandal over the way the BBC’s Panorama documentary cut and spliced together statements Trump made some 54 minutes apart in his speech on Jan. 6. 2021, falsely creating the impression that he urged his supporters to “fight like hell,“ when he had in fact called for them to ”go peacefully.”
