I was kinda hoping that a personal note within the point that it was spliced was clear enough that we need to do better than them. Alas, here i am agreeing that we need higher standards than the far right. And that it was a dumb move given that there were plenty of other things they could have done. Like showing a collage of his twitter posts that were obvious.

In either way, that train left for now, we can just hope that other people in that business learn from that and that they don’t repeat that mistake.

As stated on Reuters about that:

“The most serious was the revelation that a Panorama documentary aired just before the November 2024 U.S. presidential election had spliced together two parts of a Trump speech so he appeared to be encouraging the Capitol Hill riot of January 6, 2021. The documentary was made by an independent production company.”

So there’s a few things at play here from what I can tell.

1. The splice is real (?) And was produced by a third party and not the BBC itself.
2. A splice is not exactly the fine British way of doing things. (Okay, I give them that, a splice shouldn’t be needed to get a point across)
3. The thing the documentary was getting at, in other words that the orange did in fact encourage violence should the election go how it went in 2020, still holds true. Spliced video or not.

Is it a journalistic foul? Yes.

Do the facts presented hold up even if shown in a less honest way? Yes.

So the outrage is about less honest use of media, you know… The thing the far right is doing all the time. Rules for thee but not me and all that. Just another day in the playbook for the far right.

All of the… 826 people living there.

I hope they tell apple to do it right or sod off. And slap them with a fine on top of the original fine for trying that kind of behaviour in the first place.

You don’t say…