The Elitist Media seem to have been made very uncomfortable by the recent resignations of two BBC executives, after outrage over a documentary that aired manipulated video of President Donald Trump’s speech at The Ellipse on January 6th, 2021. So much so, that they barely covered the scandal, if at all.
The only network evening newscast to cover the scandal was the CBS Evening News. To be clear, “cover” is doing a herculean lift here. Here is that brief in its entirety.
CBS Evening News with the only coverage of the BBC scandal on the legacy evening newscasts: a 20-second brief. pic.twitter.com/Wev2gEMaWi
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 11, 2025
CBS EVENING NEWS
11/10/25
6:40 PM
JOHN DICKERSON: The president threatened to sue our broadcasting partners at the BBC for $1 billion, over a documentary that suggested he called for violence in the speech before the January 6 Capitol riot. Two top executives at the British Broadcasting Corporation have resigned. The president is demanding a full retraction of the documentary by the end of the week.
You will notice that the brief is framed around President Trump’s litigation threat and demand for retraction, respectively. But there is nothing between those frames to enlighten the viewer as to why Trump might want to sue or demand a retraction.
Likewise, there is no insight as to HOW the documentary suggested that Trump called for violence on January 6th, which is patently false. What Dickerson failed to tell viewers, per The New York Post:
(Tim Davie’s) resignation and that of the CEO of BBC News, Deborah Turness, come after it was revealed that the BBC’s flagship news program, “Panorama,” spliced together two clips of Trump speaking on Jan. 6, 2021, implying that he had directly told his supporters to storm the Capitol.
The program, which aired a week before the 2024 presidential election, “completely misled” viewers by showing Trump telling supporters he was going to walk with them to the capital and “fight like hell,” according to an internal whistleblowing memo shared with British newspaper the Telegraph on Monday.
President Trump’s full quote was that he would walk with supporters “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” But the BBC’s segment made the president “‘Say’ things [he] never actually said,” by editing together footage from the start of the speech with a separate quote nearly an hour later, according to the leaked dossier.
None of that made it to the CBS Evening News. CBS’s brief was a classic Trumpwash: when Donald Trump’s reaction to a scandal is reported as the actual scandal, thus giving Elitist Media outlets the cover to omit the details that made the scandal a scandal in the first place.
But this Trumpwashed brief was the sole entry among the evening network newscasts. Neither ABC nor NBC covered the BBC scandal and related resignations. The MLB’s gambling scandal, Rob Gronkowski’s retirement as a New England Patriot, and whether Trump got booed at the Deadskins game all seemingly merited more coverage time than the BBC scandal (to their credit, PBS did a more thorough 35 seconds on News Hour that addresses the facts of the scandal).
God forbid the media report a legitimate scandal about actual fake news- even if it’s across the pond.
