They managed to get away with it for a long time. Still, you would think that after being forced to pay out several large settlements over things like the interesting editing of the "60 Minutes" interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, or the never-ending splicing and dicing of President Donald Trump's January 6 speech, the mainstream media may begin to think twice before they do it again. But it doesn't seem to be the case. And it doesn't just go on in the U.S. British media has also had its share of fun at Trump's expense. However, that may be changing.
I'm not going to lie, I want Trump to financially destroy the BBC so comprehensively that it can't survive in its current form.
— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) November 15, 2025
We are witnessing the beginning of the end of the licence fee...
And I'm enjoying every single moment of it. pic.twitter.com/3UK7zdTKC2
On Wednesday, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr sent out a letter to the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), National Public Radio (NPR), and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), saying that the agency would begin an investigation into the BBC's, well, "creative" editing of Trump's January 6, 2021, speech at the Capitol.
Carr's letter went out to the general director of the BBC, Tim Davie, the CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher, and the president and CEO of PBS, Paula Kerger. NPR and PBS were included in Carr's letter because both outlets distribute BBC programming in the U.S.
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In the letter, Carr stated that the BBC spliced “together one portion of the speech with an entirely separate portion of the speech that came 54 minutes later.” He went on to say that:
“In doing so, the BBC program depicts President Trump voicing a sentence that, in fact, he never uttered. That would appear to meet the very definition of publishing a materially false and damaging statement.”
Trump has said he plans to sue the BBC for up to $5 million over the deceptive edits. The scandal has forced the ousting of several BBC executives, including Davie, and the CEO of News, Deborah Turness.
The United Kingdom's telecom regulator, Ofcom, has pressed the BBC to do its own investigation into the matter, but thankfully, that wasn't good enough for Brendan Carr. who stated that he would be independently investigating whether the BBC engaged in “misleading and deceptive conduct.”
The BBC has apologized to President Trump as he continues to suggest a $1 billion lawsuit for their defamation and deception.
— Jenny Beth Martin (@jennybethm) November 14, 2025
We’re done with apologies.
It’s time to hold the BBC accountable.
Carr's letter read in part:
"The BBC has stated that it has a number of partnerships with U.S. broadcasters, including PBS and NPR, to distribute BBC programming here in America. I am therefore writing to each of you to determine whether the BBC provided either the video or audio of the spliced speech to NPR, PBS, or any other broadcaster regulated by the FCC for airing in the U.S. If so, please provide the FCC with transcripts and video of any such broadcasts of the relevant program. As you may know, broadcasters regulated by the FCC have a legal obligation to operate in the public interest. Those public interest requirements include prohibitions on news distortion and broadcast hoax. After all, the FCC has stated that “rigging or slanting the news is a most heinous act against the public interest.” [Emphasis added]
The video in question came to light in a whistleblower report authored by former Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee (EGSC) advisor, Michael Prescott. Prescott says he brought it to the governing board of the BBC after numerous warnings about the video clip, included in a Trump documentary, were “dismissed or ignored."
The BBC may find itself the latest in a series of media outlets forced to pay for their Trump-editing shenanigans. In addition to the $16 million settlement from Paramount Global and CBS over the editing in the Harris interview, in December of 2024, ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos reached a $15 million settlement, including $1 million to pay for Trump's legal fees in a libel case, in which Stephanopoulos claimed on air that Trump had been found liable for the rape of writer E. Jean Carroll.
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Carr's letter concluded with this gem, “I am committed to holding broadcasters accountable to their public interest obligations, and your prompt response will help aid me in that effort.”
It may just take the liberal media on both sides of the pond a few million dollars more to figure out there is a new sheriff in town at the FCC.
This is a video clip of the BBC framing President Trump pic.twitter.com/P4U10FQYOA
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