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LONDON \u2014 The head of the BBC and the British broadcaster\u2019s top news executive both resigned Sunday after criticism of the way the organization edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump.
The BBC said Director-General Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness had both decided to leave the corporation.
Britain\u2019s public broadcaster has been criticized for editing a speech Trump made on Jan. 6, 2021, before protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington.
Critics said that the way the speech was edited for a BBC documentary last year was misleading and cut out a section where Trump said that he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.
In a letter to staff, Davie said quitting the job after five years \u201cis entirely my decision.\u201d
\u201cOverall the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made and as director-general I have to take ultimate responsibility,\u201d Davie said.
He said that he was \u201cworking through exact timings with the Board to allow for an orderly transition to a successor over the coming months.\u201d
Turness said that the controversy about the Trump documentary \u201chas reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC \u2014 an institution that I love. As the CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, the buck stops with me.\u201d
\u201cIn public life leaders need to be fully accountable, and that is why I am stepping down,\u201d she said in a note to staff. \u201cWhile mistakes have been made, I want to be absolutely clear recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong.\u201d
Pressure on the broadcaster\u2019s top executives has been growing since the Daily Telegraph newspaper published parts of a dossier complied by Michael Prescott, who had been hired to advise the BBC on standards and guidelines.
As well as the Trump edit, it criticized the BBC\u2019s coverage of transgender issues and raised concerns of anti-Israel bias in the BBC\u2019s Arabic service.
The BBC faces greater scrutiny than other broadcasters \u2014 and criticism from its commercial rivals \u2014 because of its status as a national institution funded through an annual license fee of 174.50 pounds ($230) paid by all households with a television.
It also is bound by the terms of its charter to be impartial in its output, and critics are quick to point out when they think it has failed.
The Associated Press
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