{"id":973863,"date":"2025-11-14T08:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973863"},"modified":"2025-11-14T09:25:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:55:26","slug":"bbc-apologises-to-trump-over-speech-edit-but-rejects-defamation-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/14\/bbc-apologises-to-trump-over-speech-edit-but-rejects-defamation-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC apologises to Trump over speech edit but rejects defamation claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Broadcasting Corporation sent a personal apology to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday but said there was no legal basis for him to sue the public broadcaster over a documentary his lawyers called defamatory. <\/p>\n<p>The documentary, which aired on the BBC&#8217;s &#8220;Panorama&#8221; news programme just before the U.S. presidential election in 2024, spliced together three parts of Trump&#8217;s speech on January 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed the Capitol. The edit created the impression he had called for violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Broadcasting Corporation sent a personal apology to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday but said there was no legal basis for him to sue the public broadcaster over a documentary his lawyers called defamatory. The documentary, which aired on the BBC&#8217;s &#8220;Panorama&#8221; news programme just before the U.S. presidential election in 2024, spliced together three parts of Trump&#8217;s speech on January 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed the Capitol. The edit created the impression he had called for violence.<\/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-973863","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\/973863","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=973863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}