The director-general of the BBC has resigned Sunday amid scandal after the British state broadcaster shared doctored footage of President Trump talking on Jan. 6.
Tim Davie, who has headed up the publicly-funded media outlet for 5 years, stated he was taking “final accountability” for latest “errors” made in a assertion printed by the BBC.
“General the BBC is delivering nicely, however there have been some errors made and as Director-Basic I’ve to take final accountability,” Davie stated within the assertion, which didn’t point out President Trump by title.
His resignation comes after it was revealed that the BBC’s flagship information program, “Panorama,” spliced collectively two clips of Trump talking on Jan. 6, 2021, implying that he had straight advised his supporters to storm the Capitol.
