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The ABC has been attacked in News Corp outlets for its editing of Trump’s Capitol speech. Did it do the same as the BBC?

The Guardian - Media · Amanda Meade Media correspondent · last updated

News Corp commentators have lined up to accuse the ABC of unethical practice over a 2021 Four Corners program. Here’s what Trump said, and what it said

Sky News Australia and The Australian have accused the ABC of distorting a speech by Donald Trump on the day of the attack on the US Capitol, 6 January 2021.

Their commentator Chris Kenny called the treatment of the speech in a Four Corners episode an “almost identical act of deception” as the edit of the BBC’s Panorama program that led to the resignation of the British public broadcaster’s director general and head of news last week.

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