Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has been doing some sleuthing around the BBC ’s latest crisis.

Rusbridger told a British Screen Forum (BSF) audience today that he just got hold of the controversial Panorama film that spliced together two Donald Trump clips. He showed it to former New York Times exec editor Bill Keller to see what he made of the film, which has caused the exits of Director General Tim Davie and his news boss along with a $1B legal threat from Trump.

“Bill had just written a piece which said this was a program that was largely pro-Trump, it was largely an attempt to explain Trump and why it seemed likely that he was going to win that election,” said Rusbridger, who edited the left-leaning Guardian for two decades. “It wasn’t a hatchet job on Tr

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