US EditionReith Lecturer Accuses BBC of Censoring His Speech by Removing Line About Trump
The BBC cited legal advice to remove a comment describing Donald Trump as corrupt from Rutger Bregman's lecture, amid ongoing concerns about censorship and legal risks.
- The BBC removed a sentence from a lecture by Bregman that described Donald Trump as the most openly corrupt president in American history after legal advice.
- Bregman said the decision by the BBC leadership to censor his speech is serious and concerning for free expression.
- A BBC spokesperson said the sentence was removed to comply with editorial guidelines on legal advice.
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The BBC risks committing more clumsiness than is necessary, preyed on nerves by its confrontation with Donald Trump. The public corporation has censored the speech of the Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, famous worldwide for his proposal of a basic universal income or a reduction in working hours, the phrase in which he referred to Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in the history of the United States.” The intellectual has accused the B…
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Donate to Democratic candidate Adam Frisch. Donate to Palmer Report. We now need just $177 to reach our fundraising goal. Donate hereThe BBC is facing fresh questions over its handling of material relating to Trump after the historian Rutger Bregman accused the corporation of censoring criticism of the former US president in one of its most high-profile lecture series. Bregman, the Dutch author delivering this year’s Reith Lectures, a series of…
Rutger Bragman called such editing censorship, and the decision of the broadcaster's management “very serious”.
A Dutch historian described Trump as "the most openly corrupt president of American history", but the phrase was cut off from his poster transmitted by BBC.
BBC accused of censoring Trump line from historian's lecture
Author and historian Rutger Bregman has said “the irony could not be bigger” as he accused the BBC of censoring a sentence about Donald Trump in a lecture he gave. Dutch academic Bregman said the corporation removed a line from the broadcast of his Reith Lecture, titled A Time Of Monsters, in which he described Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history”. It comes in the wake of controversy at the corporation after the US pr…
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