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The BBC is facing accusations of bias, as well as a lawsuit, after a leaked memo suggests the Panorama programme edited one of Donald Trump鈥檚 speeches to imply he encouraged the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021.
The US President is demanding a full retraction and is threatening to sue for nearly 1.8 billion New Zealand dollars in damages.
The incident is doing nothing to raise trust in the media, or dispel concerns of media bias.
九一星空无限 Editor-at-Large Shayne Currie told Kerre Woodham that a reporter鈥檚 job when covering the news is to report the facts accurately, fairly, and in a balanced view, and some of the criticism that鈥檚 been directed towards the media is that a lot of reporters have been allowed to inject their own opinion or analysis into those news reports.
鈥淚 think we鈥檙e getting to a point now where you鈥檒l see much more clearly differentiated, this is news, this is opinion, this is analysis.鈥
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