EXCLUSIVE: It was the BBC crisis that resulted in a lawsuit from the U.S. president, but the British broadcaster’s chair has personally refused to release key information relating to the debacle because he believes it is not in the public interest.
Samir Shah has blocked Deadline’s efforts to disclose written discussions between board members during the week in which a botched Donald Trump edit spiraled into a catastrophe, forcing the resignations of the director general and head of news.
The November 2025 board deliberations are vital to understanding whether disagreement among directors compounded Panorama’s misleading edit of Trump’s January
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