BBC Board Revolts As ‘Hurricane Deborah’ Blows Herself Out

 

 

It was meant to be damage control — instead it was carnage. When Deborah Turness marched into the BBC boardroom on Thursday, she expected to steady the ship. Instead, the ship sank — with her at the helm.

 

The £400,000-a-year “Hurricane Deborah” faced a wall of cold fury from the board, furious over her botched attempt to explain away the doctoring of Donald Trump’s speech and weeks of headlines exposing the Beeb’s suffocating woke bias.

 

Turness tried to spin it as a mere “editing error” — just an 11-second clip, she pleaded. But directors weren’t buying it. One after another tore into her for deceiving viewers, covering up bias, and letting an all-powerful “LGBT desk” kill stories that didn’t fit its ideology.

 

By all accounts, Turness — who once swaggered through NBC and ITN — was “cut to shreds.” Sir Robbie Gibb led the charge, backed by Tory outrage and Boris Johnson’s call to boycott the licence fee until someone at the top took responsibility.

 

Behind the scenes, BBC insiders say she was desperate to fight back, fuming that management had gone silent while critics tore the corporation to pieces. “Classic BBC,” sighed one executive. “Bury your head in the sand and hope it all goes away.”

 

It didn’t. By Friday, the Israeli embassy was accusing the Beeb of “deeply flawed” coverage, Trump’s White House branded it a “Leftist propaganda machine,” and MPs were muttering about defunding the lot.

 

By Sunday night, Turness knew the game was up. Her resignation letter was barely dry before questions began swirling: who’s next, and how deep does this rot go?

 

For now, the BBC looks less like Britain’s proud broadcaster — and more like a smug, collapsing institution choking on its own bias.

 

 

Key Takeaways:

• BBC board tore into Deborah Turness, accusing her of deceiving viewers and caving to ideological bias.

• Turness quit in disgrace, ending days of political and diplomatic fury over “fake news” scandals.

• Crisis exposes deep rot inside the Beeb — arrogance, activism, and a refusal to face the public it serves.

 

Source: Daily Mail

 

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By Friday, the Israeli embassy was accusing the Beeb of “deeply flawed” coverage,

Well say no more !

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...and letting an all-powerful “LGBT desk” kill stories that didn’t fit its ideology.

That is insidious and sinister, and pretty much sums up the far-left culture that has sunk its teeth into the BBC. This sort of poison needs to be drawn out with the likes of the deputy head of the BBC also being forced to resign along with anyone else that doesn't know what "unbiased" and "impartial" really means. The Chairman should go too as he appears to be the BBC's answer to Sadiq Khan and on the same level of incompetence and box-ticking upward failure.

Interesting piece by Rod Liddle on Spectator TV - he doesn't think it can or will change, just a new management team virtually indistinguishable from the old one. He says that the only change will be when the license fee (he describes it as an unsustainable anachronism) goes.

 

He probably knows, after all he used to be the editor of "The Today Program".