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A Trump doco has plunged the BBC into crisis. The critics have a good point

Jonathan Holmes Journalist and former presenter of Media Watch November 11, 2025 — 7.30pm

Taxpayer-funded public broadcasters are expected to strive for objectivity and impartiality in a divisive era when most commercial news organisations barely pretend to do so. It’s a ferociously difficult task.

In September 2018 – not that long ago – the ABC’s managing director was sacked by its board, and the board’s chairman was forced to resign, in the space of three days.

This week, the BBC’s director-general, Tim Davie, and its CEO of news, Deborah Turness, both resigned in the space of a single day . On the face of it, an even more startling concatenation.

Is it the result of a po

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