By Shishir Prashant 
PrashantNews
Buckling under pressure from different quarters, the BBC’s Director General Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness have resigned after criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by US President Donald Trump, media reports said.
The action came after a cross-party group of MPs demanded action on the issue. The House of Commons culture, media and sport committee said it had written to BBC chairman Samir Shah to ask what action is being taken over the concerns raised in the memo. A media report said an internal memo suggested the programme edited two parts of Trump’s speech where he appeared to have explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021. Davie, in the job for five years, had faced increasing pressure over a series of controversies and accusations of bias that have dogged the public broadcaster. UK political leaders expressed hope the resignations would lead to change, while Trump welcomed the decision.
The one-hour programme, Trump: A Second Chance?, was broadcast last year and was made for the BBC by independent production company October Films Ltd, which has also been approached for comment. In his speech in Washington DC on 6 January 2021, Trump said: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.” However, in Panorama’s edit, he was shown saying: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol… and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.”