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Speaker 1: Well, at least someone's resigned at the BBC. In fact,

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Speaker 1: two have resigned, both the Director General and the Boss

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Speaker 1: of News. And the fact that this bias scandal at

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Speaker 1: the BBC has claimed two of the most senior executives

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Speaker 1: there tells you how serious it is. And it's not

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Speaker 1: just serious for the BBC, too serious basically for all

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Speaker 1: the mainstream media outlets in the English speaking world. Because

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Speaker 1: even though the rest of us didn't splice together two

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Speaker 1: pieces of what Donald Trump said to make it sound

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Speaker 1: like he was encouraging his followers to take a fight

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Speaker 1: to the capital, and even though the rest of US

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Speaker 1: didn't hire the son of a hamas official to voice

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Speaker 1: a documentary about Gaza, many of us take the BBC's content,

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Speaker 1: don't we, often unchecked. There are some media organizations out

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Speaker 1: there that are so beyond reproach that other media outlets

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Speaker 1: like ourselves will take their content and not reverify it

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Speaker 1: because it's the BBC. It's the BBC, you don't have

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Speaker 1: to verify it. Well, if they are infected by bias,

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Speaker 1: we all become infected by bias, don't we. Whether it's

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Speaker 1: their obvious bias on Gaza, their bias on trans issues,

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Speaker 1: their bias on Trump, which they have been well and

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Speaker 1: truly busted for. They're bias becomes everybody else's bias because

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Speaker 1: we're taking their content. This is the kind of stuff

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Speaker 1: that has crashed and still continues to crash public trust

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Speaker 1: in the media. Because if you thought that the media

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Speaker 1: was unfair on Trump, now you've been proven right. If

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Speaker 1: you thought that the media was soft on Hamas, now

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Speaker 1: you've been proven right. If you thought that there was

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Speaker 1: all this stuff going on where the media had fixed

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Speaker 1: views on Tras issues, now you've been proven right. All

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Speaker 1: you need to do is look at that whistleblowers dossier

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Speaker 1: that was leaked last week. For the most part, that

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Speaker 1: will explain all of it to you. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: as a member of the media, my faith in the

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Speaker 1: BBC has been really eroded by what's just happened, not

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Speaker 1: just because they sliced together two pieces of Trump's speech

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Speaker 1: to make him say something he didn't say, but because

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Speaker 1: they knew it and sat on it for so long.

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Speaker 1: This happened a year ago. It happened a year ago.

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Speaker 1: It took a whistleblower's frustration to eventually write a dossier

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Speaker 1: and then to leak it explicitly because the BBC weren't

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Speaker 1: doing anything about it. For the BBC to actually do

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Speaker 1: something about it, like the resignations that we've seen in

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Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours, it's not good enough. What's

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Speaker 1: happened to the BBC and Jesus. This is how media

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Speaker 1: outlets are still behaving in twenty twenty five, despite all

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Speaker 1: the evidence that they are losing public trust. It's going

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Speaker 1: to take a really long time for us all to

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