The media kept describing footage of Biden stumbling or stumbling over words as ‘cheapfakes’. Meanwhile the media has done plenty of actual faking.
This particular incident is notable because it comes from a foreign government. The BBC is state media. UK residents are obligated to fund it with a license fee. The UK has passed laws forcing smart TVs to prioritize the ‘Beeb’ and its propaganda.
So this particular incident is notable because it’s not just the work of a biased media, but the work of hostile state media.
The BBC “doctored” a Donald Trump speech by making him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot, according to an internal whistleblowing memo seen by The Telegraph.
A Panorama programme broadcast a week before the US election “completely misled” viewers by showing the president telling supporters he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to “fight like hell”, when in fact he said he would walk with them “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”.
The “mangled” footage was highlighted in a 19-page dossier on BBC bias which was compiled by a recent member of the BBC’s standards committee and is now circulating in government departments.
The dossier said the programme made the US president “‘say’ things [he] never actually said” by splicing together footage from the start of his speech with something he said nearly an hour later.
The report said that Panorama’s “distortion of the day’s events” was so egregious that viewers would ask: “Why should the BBC be trusted, and where will this all end?”
The UK needs its own reforms, but from the American perspective, there are compelling reasons why we should not allow the BBC, Al Jazeera and other hostile state media into the United States.
Foreign propaganda should not be carried by American cable networks.
