The BBC has been caught up in yet another editing scandal after the 1pm news reportedly altered reactions of the Question Time audience.
Boris Johnson drew a hysteric reaction from the audience after fielding questions on how important it is for people in positions of power to tell the truth.
The Prime Minister said trust is “absolutely vital” to the election, claims that didn’t wash with those at the event.
But when the clip aired on BBC the following day it appeared as if the PM had received a warm reaction for his comments.
Yet another editorial mistake? @BBCNews has edited out the audience laughing at Johnson when questioned on trust
— James James (@Tingaling007) November 23, 2019
The first part is the actual footage, the second is from BBC News at 1pm today
Surley now we all clearly see this propaganda for what it is?pic.twitter.com/ZiVT8iUi0T
Cenotaph gaffe
The BBC say the clip was “shortened for timing reasons” and had been used in previous evening’s news, but it’s not the first time to have happened.
The dubious edit comes just weeks after the broadcasting corporation used an old clip of Johnson at a cenotaph instead of the video of his wreath gaffe.
The old clip was used instead of footage of the bungling Tory leader placing a poppy wreath upside down as the Queen watched.
The broadcaster said: “This morning on the programme we incorrectly used footage from a Remembrance Day service that was not filmed yesterday.
“This was a production mistake and we apologise for the error”.
Upside down
The PM was accused of being disrespectful for placing a wreath upside down.
But this error wasn’t shown on the BBC this morning – with 2016 cenotaph footage being aired instead.
It’s Bloody Insolence on the part of the Bloody BBC 👿 we expect it in Scotland… but somebody should put a stop to this Lord Ha Ha stuff
this is the most scottish thing i have ever laid eyes upon, and my cousin married a scottish dude named Scott.
so can i legitimately stop paying my licence fee now as the BBC have obviously not kept to their contractual remit with the British people?
Time for a petition? I`m certainly SO FED UP with The BBC and their cavalier attitude towards us licence paying public..that heads need to roll at The Top of it!
I no longer watch BBC News or current affairs programmes on BBC. The content can no longer be believed
as a result of manipulation of images and text to favour the Tories. This is not news, it’s propaganda.
I saw them switch out a picture of Corbyn the other day in more or less real-time. I was involved in a HYS about something he’d announced, hit refresh, and within the previous few minutes they had replaced the headline picture of Corbyn looking serious with one of him sat in (I think) a church with his hands together and looking up as if in prayer. Incredibly petty, but it’s just a constant drip, drip, drip of ‘don’t take this man seriously’. Disgusting.
BBC cannot be trusted then Itv is just as bad, yes people want to be informed we also want to see the human side the errors made by these people . the qustion time were Mr johnson was laught at sneared at shows no respect by the audiance but that is part of public life all media should be aware people are more savay and want take there shit, plus we are politically more aware fact .
Mass license cancel tomorrow
The BBC is now just a Tory propaganda broadcasting service. This is just basic manipulation of the truth. And we need to ask why. They should be honest and all wear VOTE TORY blue rosettes when on screen, at least we would know where they stand.
At least in the US, our propaganda (Fox News) is not directly subsidized by the government.
Even the carefully chosen biased audience had to have it’s reaction edited?
Big biased brother’s propaganda machine better be careful – might lose it’s funding
No longer able to maintain a neutral position. A sad day for democracy.
That is barely a big deal… They laughed for maybe 1 second… Stop looking for things to be mad at.
So we allow minor alterations without recourse? What happens next when the monor alterations become large ones?
Hey whoever wrote this… him saying politics need to be truthful isn’t what didn’t wash well. It’s the fact he lies soooo much and he says people need to be truthful is what they were laughing at. The way this is written makes it seem like the audience disagrees about being truthful, when in reality they were laughing at hypocrisy of the person saying it
The clip is not just shortened to leave out the laughter, it is doctored with different clapping and a different clip of Johnson saying the same words with a different inflection for eg. the word ‘vital’ pitches down in the original and goes up in pitch in the doctored clip.