GB News presenter Stephen Dixon has hit out at the BBC following claims the broadcaster edited Donald Trump’s January 6 speech to make him appear more inflammatory.
The row erupted after an internal report accused the corporation of splicing together footage from different parts of the speech in a Panorama documentary.
The programme allegedly merged two comments spoken nearly an hour apart, making it sound as though the US President told supporters to “fight like hell” as they marched to the Capitol.
In reality, Mr Trump said they should walk there “peacefully and patriotically”.
Stephen Dixon said that he cannot understand how this happened
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Speaking on GB News, Stephen said: “I mean, to be honest, that’s the one thing which really I can’t get my head around.
“It’s one thing, and it’s not right, but it’s understandable how newsroom bias can work its way into a script, for example.
“I can understand how that happens. I can’t understand how you, in effect, fix an edit to make someone say something they didn’t.”
He added: “I mean, the problem is it feeds into the idea of fake news.
“You are being shown something which does not it convey what actually happened? That literally is fake news.”
His comments came after entrepreneur and broadcaster Alison Cork also criticised the BBC’s handling of the programme.
“For me, as somebody who has no time for wokeness and I’m not left wing, the problem here is that you want to be impartial,” she said.
“But there are so many instances of bias, it just becomes obvious. It’s so ingrained.”
She added that the Panorama edit “literally cut and pasted two remarks that were on different planets.”
The controversy erupted after former BBC adviser Michael Prescott submitted a 19-page dossier accusing the corporation of “deceptive editing” and bias on issues from Gaza to the trans debate.
The White House later condemned the BBC’s conduct, calling it “yet another example of misleading reporting and outright lies”.
The President’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, responded to the controversy by calling UK media “dishonest”.
“The FAKE NEWS ‘reporters’ in the UK are just as dishonest and full of shit as the ones here in America!!!!” he wrote on X.