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Podcast host Joe Rogan called out the BBC on Wednesday over the scandal over the network’s deceptively edited video of former President Donald Trump, saying it shows the “deep rot” in mainstream media.
The BBC has faced widespread criticism over a “Panorama” documentary about Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, speech delivered before the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Critics say the program was misleading because it omitted Trump’s call for supporters to protest “peacefully” and spliced together remarks made nearly an hour apart to appear as one continuous statement.
Trump has threatened a $1 billion lawsuit if the “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” are not retracted immediately. BBC News CEO Deborah Turness and Director-General Tim Davie both resigned in recent days amid the controversy.
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Podcast host Joe Rogan called out the BBC saying that this latest scandal involving what critics call deceptively edited footage of Trump shows the far larger rot at the heart of modern corporate journalism. (Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)
Rogan discussed the scandal multiple times this week, arguing on his podcast that it was “not journalism, but, like, full-on lying and propaganda. And it’s kinda f—— dangerous.”
“It seems like these people—this is just my opinion—felt justified for completely lying, because it would lead to an ultimate good. So they lost all journalistic integrity. And it is the BBC, which is like the height of journalistic integrity,” Rogan said.
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President Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for the documentary critics say deceptively edited his remarks. (Craig Hudson/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“If that doesn’t show the rot of mainstream, corporate-controlled media, then nothing does. Because that’s pure rot,” Rogan said. “At the top of the heap, if someone quoted a source and it was the BBC, I’d think, ‘OK, that’s like The Washington Post or The New York Times.’ It’s a very official source, so I’d assume, ‘This must be real.’”
Now, he said, things are different: “They turned it into activism, and they turned it into lying — and they did it in front of everyone, where you could clearly just listen to the full speech and know he didn’t say that. That’s not how he said it at all.”
The BBC didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Critics of the BBC’s coverage say that the documentary deceptively edited Trump’s speech by splicing together two portions of it that were nearly an hour apart. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
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Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.
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