Last night, the BBC’s Newsnight programme, as you’d expect, featured analysis of Philip Hammond’s Budget speech. It also purported to feature a clip of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s response.
But it didn’t.
Below on the left is a still taken from Jeremy Corbyn’s response – as he laid into a heckling Tory whip trying to divert attention from the plight of sick and disabled people under the Tory government. On the right is a still taken from the Newsnight coverage.
Can you spot the differences?
Different ties, different people behind him, even different glasses. The clip the BBC showed has Sarah Champion on the front bench behind Corbyn. She is no longer a front-bencher. In the real footage, Dawn Butler is directly behind him. The Tories around Hammond in the Corbyn clip are a completely different set from those in the clip shown by Newsnight of Hammond’s Budget speech, too.
The clip Newsnight showed was of Corbyn speaking well enough, but it was the Corbyn of March 2017, not the post-GE Corbyn – fluent, confident and owning the room in the way that he has done consistently since the supposedly ‘shock’ General Election result and the polling lead he has achieved over the Tories since:
The Corbyn speaking yesterday owned the Chamber – and the Tories:
The anomaly was spotted by a friend of Twitter user Helen Cherry, who tweeted about it. That tweet was flagged to the SKWAWKBOX by a follower – an example of the co-operative way that the new left media phenomenon works and worries the Establishment.
Was this just an error? If so, it was an enormous one – to take completely the wrong speech and put it out to millions as one that took place yesterday. The video Newsnight showed wasn’t even from last year’s Budget response, as Corbyn wore a red tie to that, too, so it’s not like someone looked in the Budget Response folder and pasted in the wrong file.
Or did someone at Newsnight want a different Corbyn on show to viewers?
Whether deliberate or inadvertent, the BBC and others throw ‘fake news’ smears at the independent media yet showed what amounted to fake news on one of its flagship politics and current affairs programmes.
Newsnight has been contacted for comment.
Edit: Newsnight has now been forced to issue a public correction – see here.
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The first one simply has Corbyn criticising the Tories on the lack of funding for Public Services. The second criticises The Strong Economy with official forecasts all down which is far worse for the Tories in reality. As George Osborne’s friend is still Political Editor of BBC News then there is a whiff of deliberate bias…
You’d think they might have noticed different-coloured ties.
Or the different attire of the different people in different positions in the different frames…
When I worked in TV News – albeit a long time ago, there was a live feed from the House of Commons into the editing booths. It would be perversly difficult to actually edit the wrong footage in accidentally. So I think this is deliberate.
Looks like BBC have removed the Newsnight show for now…
https://twitter.com/medialens/status/933705571160731651
On the iplayer page it currently says… coming soon for 22/11/17
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk25
And they wonder why many are turning there backs of MSM this is exactly why
On their website, they say they simply made a mistake. The mistake being, going to their library of old Corbyn clips finding one that’s irrelevant, broadcasting it first and apologise afterwards. But only if they are caught out. Can’t have a clip of Corbyn wiping the floor with the Tories, can we? We are the BBC after all. It might lead to negative comments on Dimplebores Tory Time to-night.
Ah yes, probably the most experienced and sophisticated ‘news’ outlet in the world made an apparent schoolboy error.
Still, the subliminal message/s linger in millions of brains that watched it live, most will never find out about the ‘error’. Job done.
They did not apologise!
My mistake, I should have said make excuses.
The BBC are heavily into propaganda not News, this was no accident.
And poor George Orwell stands outside presiding over it all, an irony not lost on him, but a not so crafty move by BBC?
“Is it true? Or did you hear it on the BBC”
I used to defend the BBC.
Now there’s nothing left to defend. Except some of their drama.
And most of that is outsourced these days.
Aunty, what are you up to?
What a complete cockup or did you do it purposely?
The latter I suspect!
The neoliberal Tories spin their capitalistic lies and you voice them like any right-wing FASCIST organisation would!
“WHY”?
Well spotted that person. I’m reading a good book at the moment called ‘The BBC – Myth of a Public Service’ by Tom Mills. Very good. email me chrisowen@zoho.com
im old enough to see the propaganda by main streat media.don’t watch it now. got my eye on the game the west is playing..prep for war to prevent Russia and eu making deals..can’t have that.as eu is meant to be the buffer on Russian borders..
Was this a ‘mistake’ by Newsnight too?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bbc-axe-investigation-sir-jimmy-157675?service=responsive
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