Donald Trump BBC

The BBC just needs to come out and tell people on the right politically to go get stuffed. To hell with so called ‘impartiality’, there is nothing to be impartial about with regard to what is right and wrong in the world.

People like Trump and Farage need to be deplatformed from mainstream news organisations, enough is enough.

The BBC should be better at watching out for institutionalised bias, it could help itself on this.

5 billion. It’s a capitalist takeover mark my words

He isnt suing for a million. He is suing for 1 -5 BILLION. It is completely outragous and would csuse setious economic damage to the wider UK economy.
The Daily Mail readers / Reform voters celebrating this are deluded.

I pay it reluctantly because I watch and record live tv on Sky Q, I don't watch hardly any BBC so could easily not use the BBC part.

But do I want the concept of an impartial, free and fair news broadcaster to be torpedoed in this day and age.

It’s not free - any household which owns a tv must pay for a licence.

Ah, the BBC. Unravelling before our very eyes. No fan of Trump, but along with their buddies CNN, took out the word 'peacefully' and rejigged what he said.

Don't get me started on BBC Verify...

I don’t blame him as it was appalling how it was edited. It’s the big greedy fat cats will have to lose their salaries and whoever okayed they edit should be fired.

It’s supposed to be an unbiased company so to do what they did pisses all over that concept. We only know because they were found out so what else have the doctored to suit their narratives

I couldn’t agree more. I don’t pay a licence fee either (like millions of others living in the UK). I suspect a sizeable % of licence fee payers pay it reluctantly too and barely engage with BBC content . Viewing Trump suing the BBC as retaliating against the UK population is a novel perspective.

They'll just increase the licence fee and the bbc fans can suck it up and pay up

I’ve been so surprised by how many people seem to hate the BBC on here so much, they’d happily watch as Trump effectively attempts to kill off the institution entirely.

I’m as angry and disappointed as the next person. But do I want the concept of an impartial, free and fair news broadcaster to be torpedoed in this day and age? No. And I think we ought to be very wary of the context of this story arc. Who serves to win if all our news becomes subscription based or paid for by ads? Because it isn’t us.

im sorry but I really want the BBC to continue holding those in power to account, albeit to higher standards than we see here. Gutting the service and giving Trump billions of dollars isn’t the way to do that.

This happens all the time. NHS payments for negligence are eye watering. It doesn’t make litigation the wrong response per se. One of the reasons litigation exists is to act as a deterrent. Another is to right a wrong. I’d say it’s incumbent on the BBC not to get it wrong and to fess up unreservedly and without qualification when they do.

My view is the sum proposed ($1 to $ billion dollars) is ridiculous. You have pointed out that it might be more realistic than I thought, as billion dollar awards have been made before. That is indeed ruinous. For all our criticisms of the BBC and its licence fee arrangement, this would be a sad reason for it to fall. But my suspicion is that Trump is more creative than that. He’s also extremely fond of Britain, entitled to a British passport and his sister lives here. This is grandstanding. He wants something, but it’s probably not money. Maybe it’s more friendly coverage. Who knows. We will have to wait and see.

I think he should sue and I really don't like the man. It wasn't a one off "mistake" they did it twice on two different programmes.

If he does sue they may find more examples of wrongdoing and there will be something. Gaza anyone.? Maxine Croxall, that was biased against women.

He's only hurting those who pay the licence fee. Perhaps they can do a fundraising campaign that BBC fans can donate to if Trump wins? I'm sure they would gladly donate!

Hes only harming the ones that pay and support the beeb. Many of us don't

Your correct response would be to boycott the BBC and refuse to pay your TV licence.

@Genevieva he obviously didn’t have a billion dollars but the Sandy Hook families were able to bankrupt him and last I heard were given control of assets from his news outlet. I know nothing further

I'm fucking FURIOUS with the BBC for dicking around like this as if they were 6th form students. Utter wankers.

Trump is a cunt but the beeb have destroyed their own reputation.

The BBC was an internationally respected broadcaster, renowned for its impartiality. And paid for by the citizens of the UK.

Quite apart from all sorts of biased reporting in recent years, which is another topic, they deliberately edited a speech from the guy who is now, and then was potentially, President of the US, to dishonestly show him in an extremely bad light. This could have had repercussions and encouraged certain reactions from the public. Although the BBC did not release it in the US, a large number of Americans were familiar with, and shocked by, the recording.

Whatever you or I might think of Trump the man, I think any broadcaster who wishes to be taken seriously needs to be very careful to portray accurately and respectfully the words and actions of the President (or potential President) of the United States of America, elected by the people of the United States according to their system. And, indeed, any other world leader, regardless of the personal opinions of any journalist.

I very much doubt the BBC will end up paying $billions; I should think some settlement will be agreed. But I think Trump is absolutely right to bring this out into the open.

Plus not buying American goods only affect Americans so?

".... would it be appropriate to stop buying goods from US for a while. ..."

What !

Are people still buying US goods ?

:-)

Well who is it then?