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Trump Threatens to Sue BBC for $1B

hank
edited November 10 in Off-Topic
This involves the BBC’s cutting, editing and splicing together some of Trump’s controversial comments at the rally that preceded the January 20th attack on the Capitol in 2021. He did say all those awful things. But not in the order the BBC presented them. Somehow the BBC managed to make his remarks sound even more outrageous than they actually were. Hard to do. Not a good look for the BBC - though what they did (likely to enliven the broadcast and draw more viewers) is not unheard of. The BBC has apologized and at least 2 top executives have resigned.

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  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    edited November 10
    As you folks know, when I eliminate anything in one of my posts from an outside source I tag the info as "Excerpts" and if I do any serious modification of the original source material I tell you that my post is "Edited Excerpts". And of course there is a link to the original source material.

    Maybe the BBC should have done something similar.
  • CrashCrash
    Well, regardless. Uncle Orange Orifice can go suck eggs full of farts.
  • a2z
    edited November 11
    well, it has been a decade since the acceptance of outright lies and delusions only works as a 1-way street.
    there was a tracker that probably went defunct after trump hit the 15k lies mark.

    as always, let's safely assume trump wants to extort money as a primary goal of the lawsuit; the BBC is stuck if it admits editorial 'underperformance' as evidence against itself.
  • DrVenture
    Not sure how this all works if the article was defined as an "editorial". An editorial is often defined as "opinion". And the BBC took immediate action to mitigate.

    Sounds like a very weak case.
  • CrashCrash
    edited November 11
    And his motive in the suit is just simply naked greed. And revenge. Don't you know that you're not allowed to criticize the Orange Fuhrer?
  • hank
    edited November 14
    Well, the guy thinks small. Were I to sue somebody I’d probably go for $10,000 or in an extreme case $100,000. $1B? Maybe he’s jealous of Musk’s $1T pay package?


    Pretty sure the issue is over an audio presentation - possibly a broadcast special they did on the Capital riot. I can’t access the Guardian anymore. They’re demanding I sign in at Google or somewhere.
  • CrashCrash
    Dick-deficient egos.
  • hank
    edited November 14
    Crash said:

    Dick-deficient egos.

    OK - I changed “big” to “small” in my post. Either works I guess.
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