A man walks outside the BBC Headquarters in London, Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

It is tempting to view the sudden resignation of two top BBC executives Sunday evening, in the wake of scathing criticism by the Trump administration, as an extraterritorial example of the intense pressure that President Donald Trump has put on broadcast news organizations in the United States.

But the British Broadcasting Corp. is not CBS or ABC, both of which settled lawsuits brought by Trump over their coverage of him. Its current crisis — the gravest the BBC has faced in decades — is less about Trump, experts said, than about the insoluble tensions of a renowned public service broadcaster operating in a bitterly divided political and media world.

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