BBC Director-General Tim Davie resigned after a week of mounting controversies that left the public broadcaster reeling. His exit, alongside BBC News chief Deborah Turness, followed outrage over a Panorama episode that edited together two separate parts of a Donald Trump speech to make it appear as though he had urged supporters to “fight like hell” during the January 6 riots. The fallout exposed deep divisions over the BBC’s editorial integrity, impartiality, and crisis management, leading Davie to accept “ultimate responsibility” for what he called “mistakes made at the corporation.” The immediate trigger was the Panorama controversy. The episode used a doctored clip of a Trump speech from 2021, misleading viewers into believing he directly called for violence. Once the edit

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