{"id":973039,"date":"2025-11-11T08:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973039"},"modified":"2025-11-11T09:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:21:50","slug":"bbc-faces-leadership-crisis-after-news-bosses-quit-over-trump-speech-edit-and-bias-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/11\/bbc-faces-leadership-crisis-after-news-bosses-quit-over-trump-speech-edit-and-bias-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC faces leadership crisis after news bosses quit over Trump speech edit and bias claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC was facing a leadership crisis and mounting political pressure on Monday after its top executive and its head of news both quit over the editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The resignation of BBC Director-General Tim Davie and news chief Deborah Turness over accusations of bias was welcomed by Trump, who said the way his speech had been edited was an attempt to &#8220;step on the scales of a Presidential Election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BBC chairman Samir Shah was expected to issue an apology for the actions of the publicly funded national broadcaster on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC was facing a leadership crisis and mounting political pressure on Monday after its top executive and its head of news both quit over the editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. The resignation of BBC Director-General Tim Davie and news chief Deborah Turness over accusations of bias was welcomed by Trump, who said the way his speech had been edited was an attempt to &#8220;step on the scales of a Presidential Election.&#8221; BBC chairman Samir Shah was expected to issue an apology for the actions of the publicly funded national broadcaster on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}