US watchdog led by Trump ally investigates BBC Panorama edit of January 6 speech

 Brendan Carr the head of  The FCC who has previously threatened Americas media with investigations over their news coverage of Donald Trump and was a catalyst in Disney-ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel from his late night show has been tasked with investigating The BBC over its broadcast of a Panorama  episode that dealt with Trump's involvement with the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol.  

(Just to be clear the Panorama programme in question was never broadcast in the U.S. as its geoblocked and BBC's Iplayer isn't available in America.)  

A US media regulator led by a close ally of Donald Trump is examining whether an edition of the BBC’s Panorama broke US regulations in the way it edited one of the president’s speeches.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), led by Brendan Carr, has written to the BBC’s outgoing director general, Tim Davie, asking whether the programme was ever aired in the US.

Davie and the head of BBC News, Deborah Turness, resigned after complaints about the show by a former independent adviser to the broadcaster. The BBC has since apologised for splicing two clips of a speech Trump made before the Capitol riots in January 2021.

Trump says he will take legal action against BBC, despite its apology

 

US president says he will sue the corporation for ‘anywhere between a billion and $5bn’

Donald Trump has said he still plans to sue the BBC despite receiving the apology he demanded over a misleading edit of one of his speeches.

The row, over an episode of Panorama from last year about the Capitol riot in 2021, led to accusations of bias at the broadcaster and the resignation of two of the most senior executives at the BBC: the director general, Tim Davie; and Deborah Turness, the chief executive of news.

The US president previously said he would take legal action if he did not get an apology but on Friday evening Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One: “We’ll sue them for anywhere between a billion and $5bn, probably sometime next week. We have to do it.”

Panorama is restricted for broadcast in the UK only. Meaning that Donald Trump's reputation in America couldn't possibly have been damaged.  

According to a UK based media solicitor he has little legal recourse in his quest to get a monetary settlement from the BBC.  

Donald Trump is so lacking in self confidence, immature and insecure that's amazing he can even get out of bed. 

Can Donald Trump sue the BBC for $1bn and which party would win?

 US president has said he will bring proceedings if the documentary containing an edited speech from 6 January 2021 is not retracted

Where will Trump sue?

As the Panorama episode was first broadcast on 28 October last year, Trump has missed the boat for filing a defamation claim in London, where it must be brought within a year. However, in Florida the statute of limitations is two years, so he is not timed out, and BBC content is available through BBC.com in the US, where there is also the BBC Select streaming service.

A letter from Trump’s lawyer to the BBC notified them of his intention to bring proceedings in Florida if there is “not a full and fair retraction of the documentary”, an apology and appropriate compensation for the harm caused.

Can Trump sue the BBC in Florida?

According to a UK media solicitor Donald Trump would have difficulty bringing a case against the BBC in America as the Panorama episode in dispute was never broadcast in the America as the BBC's Iplayer isn't available for streaming in the country. 

As in previous legal action brought against other media organizations in America by Donald Trump two things are involved here. Retribution and intimidation. 

Further in the case with the BBC Donald Trump and his allies are trying to rewrite the history of the attempted coup by his supporters on 6 January 2021. 

    

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A company that has received billions of pounds in green energy subsidies from UK taxpayers is cutting down environmentally important forests, a BBC Panorama investigation has found.

Forests in Canada have been cut down by Drax, a British company that makes wood pellets. It then burns the pellets to make electricity.

Drax says it only uses sawdust and waste wood that the timber industry doesn't want.

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