The outcry over the Prescott memo led to the resignations of director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness earlier this month, and sparked a fierce debate about the state of the BBC and its journalism. Another board member, Caroline Thomson, said a number of fellow board members felt the Panorama clip had given a "misleading impression" of Trump's message, whereas she said the News department had argued it was fair given the content of the speech as a whole. She said: "News continued to maintain that actually the impression given, despite the edit, was correct because the gist of the speech by Trump had, for example, the use of the word 'fight' 15 times and only talked about peace once.
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