O/T Tim Davie

Tim Davie is standing down as Director General of the BBC.

He's been in charge while there has been many controversies at the corporation, including the recent edit of footage in a Panorama documentary about Donald Trump.

Other controversies include it's coverage of Glastonbury and several situations concerning Gary Lineker.

CEO of News, Deborah Turness, is also resigning.




My own personal view is that although I'm no fan of Trump, the Panorama footage was so clearly edited that it was very misleading. On that basis, it's right that both resign.

Not an easy corporation to be in charge of because people are always coming at them from all sides, so good luck to whoever takes over.

I think this is unfair on him as it's now not fit for purpose a 100 years after its initial launch.

i believe the demand for 24-hour news creates too much demand for filler and opinions. I have watched a lot of documentary series recently (cold war & Vietnam, MI5/6 stories), and the thing that always hits me from looking at news from the 60's-90's was the newrreader would read the news, maybe a VT from a reporter who would say what happened, at no time did it zoom back to an editor to give his thoughts, and this is where we have gone "wrong". Just give us the facts, not an interpretation. Its not the BBC's job to educate or reeducate me. 10 mins of GB News made me think we need a rethink. It needs to come with a warning, but sky isn't a million miles behind them with their dipping into NBC's stuff

IMO the BBC needs to be split up into Entertainment, Sports & news and current affairs as a subscription service and a free-to-air (limited adverts) channel that includes the news. The news needs to be 30 mins at lunch, dinner and late just giving the facts.

There is far too much USA stuff from a supposedly independent country. I don't give a toss who the mayor of NY is or what some senator or the president said unless it involves the UK. The internet has liberated news, if you want fox or MSNBC then it's there for you.

Panorama, QT and to an extent Newsnight has crossed the line recently in their pursuit of entertainment, education or point scoring. Were those racist coppers entrapped, i doubt it but there shouldn't be doubt.

The next one will have exactly the same issues.


rant over

Tim Davie is standing down as Director General of the BBC.

He's been in charge while there has been many controversies at the corporation, including the recent edit of footage in a Panorama documentary about Donald Trump.

Other controversies include it's coverage of Glastonbury and several situations concerning Gary Lineker.

CEO of News, Deborah Turness, is also resigning.




My own personal view is that although I'm no fan of Trump, the Panorama footage was so clearly edited that it was very misleading. On that basis, it's right that both resign.

Not an easy corporation to be in charge of because people are always coming at them from all sides, so good luck to whoever takes over.

Agree; and if the theme is followed, we can look forward to the resignations of Sir Keir ‘Air-miles’ Starmer, the short-tempered David ‘Anyone’s fault bar mine’ Lammy, and, of course, the ever-evolving Starmer clone, Rachel from Accounts!

Sadly, won’t happen. That would take honesty, integrity, and accountability; none of which those three have!

The BBC is so partisan it has to lose its funding. I’ve not paid a license for decades and my telly still works. Clipping speeches, of politicians they disagree with, has become the norm for BBC and they’ve facilitated child abuse for years. An embarrassment to this country.

I have felt for a long time that the current makers of Panorama have been living on the reputation of a once well respected programme. Forget the politics, the editing of the Trump speech was one of the blatant attempts to distort the facts to fit the story they wanted to tell. Unfortunately they have managed to destroy the reputation of the BBC in the eyes of the outside world, damaged the interests of this country and given credence to Trumps "fake news"narrative. Disgraceful.

I have felt for a long time that the current makers of Panorama have been living on the reputation of a once well respected programme. Forget the politics, the editing of the Trump speech was one of the blatant attempts to distort the facts to fit the story they wanted to tell. Unfortunately they have managed to destroy the reputation of the BBC in the eyes of the outside world, damaged the interests of this country and given credence to Trumps "fake news"narrative. Disgraceful.

And given trump excuse to sue them! That's trumps favourite way of making money.... if bbc don't correct whatever it is he will sue for $1b he's already made over $100m so far... as for bbc to many woke self interest people who use bbc as a conduit to force their agendas... no hope for it now as lost all credibility around the world.

I have felt for a long time that the current makers of Panorama have been living on the reputation of a once well respected programme. Forget the politics, the editing of the Trump speech was one of the blatant attempts to distort the facts to fit the story they wanted to tell. Unfortunately they have managed to destroy the reputation of the BBC in the eyes of the outside world, damaged the interests of this country and given credence to Trumps "fake news"narrative. Disgraceful.

And given trump excuse to sue them! That's trumps favourite way of making money.... if bbc don't correct whatever it is he will sue for $1b he's already made over $100m so far... as for bbc to many woke self interest people who use bbc as a conduit to force their agendas... no hope for it now as lost all credibility around the world.

I’m confident it won’t come to that, Allan. The BBC are ‘bang to rights’ on this one and they will climb down quicker than an abseiler on a greasy line!

It was a crazy thing to do, and just as the BBC (news team) are under more scrutiny than ever before!

They’re currently living on past reputations, and they’ve allowed politically motivated managers and journos to infiltrate their corridors and then employ like-minded lackeys to do the bidding!

I’m actually not against the BBC and don’t see the licence fee as ‘unwarranted’ (other platforms are way more expensive and often less diverse in programming), but they definitely need to play to the majority rather than the agenda-laden minorities, who now taken more than the proverbial mile!

Bbc is just fake .uesd to watch the bbc a lot growing up in the 70 s and 80s but now and laslt.10 years its lost the magic.
So much corruption and cover ups and we pay for it why .
Panorama or panodrama is a joke ..Trump should do something they shouldn't be allowed to spend our money on made up clipped news .There news coverage in the middle East has been terrible aswell.
Msm is almost dead so many of the dont report in a truthful way its run by the government and it shouldn't be .
The channel has been found out for what it is

Hugh Edwards gary lineaker,bob villan gaza documentry doctoring trump tapes, Fiona bruce laura koonsburg bias all recent.

I have felt for a long time that the current makers of Panorama have been living on the reputation of a once well respected programme. Forget the politics, the editing of the Trump speech was one of the blatant attempts to distort the facts to fit the story they wanted to tell. Unfortunately they have managed to destroy the reputation of the BBC in the eyes of the outside world, damaged the interests of this country and given credence to Trumps "fake news"narrative. Disgraceful.

And given trump excuse to sue them! That's trumps favourite way of making money.... if bbc don't correct whatever it is he will sue for $1b he's already made over $100m so far... as for bbc to many woke self interest people who use bbc as a conduit to force their agendas... no hope for it now as lost all credibility around the world.

Can you blame Trump though for that?

Like I said, I'm not a fan at all of him.

But if you look at what he actually said and how Panorama presented it, they seriously made it look a lot worse than it was.

They didn't even need to do it which makes the whole thing more bizarre.

I have felt for a long time that the current makers of Panorama have been living on the reputation of a once well respected programme. Forget the politics, the editing of the Trump speech was one of the blatant attempts to distort the facts to fit the story they wanted to tell. Unfortunately they have managed to destroy the reputation of the BBC in the eyes of the outside world, damaged the interests of this country and given credence to Trumps "fake news"narrative. Disgraceful.

And given trump excuse to sue them! That's trumps favourite way of making money.... if bbc don't correct whatever it is he will sue for $1b he's already made over $100m so far... as for bbc to many woke self interest people who use bbc as a conduit to force their agendas... no hope for it now as lost all credibility around the world.

Can you blame Trump though for that?

Like I said, I'm not a fan at all of him.

But if you look at what he actually said and how Panorama presented it, they seriously made it look a lot worse than it was.

They didn't even need to do it which makes the whole thing more bizarre.

It was not an error as the bbc keep saying, it was deliberate.

I have felt for a long time that the current makers of Panorama have been living on the reputation of a once well respected programme. Forget the politics, the editing of the Trump speech was one of the blatant attempts to distort the facts to fit the story they wanted to tell. Unfortunately they have managed to destroy the reputation of the BBC in the eyes of the outside world, damaged the interests of this country and given credence to Trumps "fake news"narrative. Disgraceful.

And given trump excuse to sue them! That's trumps favourite way of making money.... if bbc don't correct whatever it is he will sue for $1b he's already made over $100m so far... as for bbc to many woke self interest people who use bbc as a conduit to force their agendas... no hope for it now as lost all credibility around the world.

Can you blame Trump though for that?

Like I said, I'm not a fan at all of him.

But if you look at what he actually said and how Panorama presented it, they seriously made it look a lot worse than it was.

They didn't even need to do it which makes the whole thing more bizarre.

It was not an error as the bbc keep saying, it was deliberate.

People at BBC think they can do what they like look at Lineker and other so called personalities saying what they like despite rules..the institutions authority is weak! Where on earth does it go from here?

Bbc is just fake .uesd to watch the bbc a lot growing up in the 70 s and 80s but now and laslt.10 years its lost the magic.
So much corruption and cover ups and we pay for it why .
Panorama or panodrama is a joke ..Trump should do something they shouldn't be allowed to spend our money on made up clipped news .There news coverage in the middle East has been terrible aswell.
Msm is almost dead so many of the dont report in a truthful way its run by the government and it shouldn't be .
The channel has been found out for what it is

Before I retired I did a bit of work for BBC Wales employees, some lovely people but everyone Leftwing.