BBC board member Shumeet Banerji resigns

Banerji said successful his resignation missive that helium was unhappy astir governance issues astatine the organisation, BBC News reported.

Shumeet Banerji has resigned from the BBC committee and criticised governance issues astatine the organisation, the latest stroke to the broadcaster weeks aft its manager wide quit.

The BBC confirmed Banerji’s departure connected Friday, saying helium stepped down lone weeks earlier the extremity of his four-year term.

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According to BBC News, Banerji said successful his resignation missive that helium was unhappy astir governance issues astatine the organisation.

He besides said helium had not been consulted astir cardinal developments surrounding the abrupt exits of manager wide Tim Davie and BBC News main enforcement Deborah Turness, BBC News reported.

Both stepped down connected November 9 aft mounting disapproval of the broadcaster’s handling of governmental coverage, including the editing of a Donald Trump code delivered connected January 6, 2021, soon earlier his supporters stormed the United States Capitol.

‘No ineligible basis’

The BBC issued an apology connected November 13 for however its investigative programme Panorama edited the footage. However, it insisted determination was “no ineligible basis” for Trump to writer for defamation.

The quality focuses connected Panorama’s documentary, Trump: A Second Chance?, broadcast successful October 2024, conscionable days earlier Trump secured re-election.

The movie stitched unneurotic two abstracted lines from Trump’s January 6 address, astir an hr apart, creating the content helium urged supporters to “fight similar hell” portion heading towards the Capitol.

Trump and his allies accidental the series was misleading and stripped distant important discourse from the speech.

They reason that Trump besides told the assemblage “to peacefully and patriotically marque your voices heard” and encouraged supporters to “cheer connected our brave senators and Congressmen and women”. The edited version, they say, suggested a much nonstop incitement to violence.

The ungraded has intensified scrutiny of the BBC astatine a infinitesimal erstwhile the broadcaster is already grappling with accusations of interior bias, fuelled by a leaked interior memo.