FWIW, I'm inclined to think this was more the product of incompetence and rushing to meet deadlines / cut the length (though bias can make it harder to spot such errors). Check out this clip from @novaramedia.com reporting on the edit. The BBC didn't even need to do any cutting to indict Trump! 🙈

Obvs we need good media, but complaining about the consequences of what the BBC have brought upon themselves is like a restaurant giving people salmonella food poisoning, and then trying to portray the restaurant as a victim of the critics! The culprits are the ones who engaged in the malpractice.

2/ I don’t want to see forces of the far right succeed, but the BBC have given them this on a plate, and they deserve what they get. For shame.

But that’s precisely my point: those kinds of edits don’t happen “by mistake”. Somebody had to deliberately put 2 clips, sourced from an hour apart, onto the timeline and cover the join with a crowd shot. Will people exploit this? Sure, but the BBC are guilty, and their ALLIES ought to be angriest.

It was pretty idiotic though, wasn’t it, to edit Trump like that! I mean, it’s not as if Trump even needs any editing in order to look bad! I’m a video editor myself, and that kind of misleading treatment cannot be done by accident. They shot themselves in the foot in a completely unnecessary way.

I switched to telling people what I’ve decided to do, giving them a deadline to voice any objections.

Also, phrasing questions as a “no”-oriented answer is oddly effective: “can you do this task?” Becomes “is anything preventing you from doing this task?”

I sometimes WhatsApp people to let them know I’ve emailed them…. Which of course is toooooooootally legit………….

A real alternative sounds like a great idea… know anybody? (For starters, how about someone who can at least manage a newsletter?)

Well done. It’s worth it. I held back from doing that for a long time, but it feels great now, like I’m finally free of some kind of sinister IV drip!

Good ol’ Bernard Cribbons got in on the action on this one! youtu.be/aoVJ87hSuvk?...

You’re on your way to becoming the next Aaron Sorkin or David Mamet!

Can’t say I’m surprised. Corbyn is not a competent leader (I had the pleasure of talking at length to a rep of the Revolutionary Communist Party recently outside a Tube station, and he didn’t hold back on saying the same when I asked his view)! There’s a reason he became known as Magic Grandpa. 🤦🏻‍♂️

(Though having just found your article critiquing the quiet revival….. I’d better read it!)

Mixture of more expressions of interest in it from high profile figures, reports of more people showing up to church calendar events such as Easter. The Quiet Revival stats seem to support this, but I l’d want to be careful with stats! Doesn’t change the clusterfudge that the CofE is in tho!

True, though the challenge has always been to get it to spew out a piece of shit that looks like a full glass: youtu.be/160F8F8mXlo?...

I’m fairly persuaded that there really is an increase of interest in Christianity, but I also agree that the C of E is in an absolutely disgraceful mess. My worry is that, if there are more people looking to attend church, the C of E will be in no fit state to receive them nor be recommended.

Labour just doesn’t seem to have any identity anymore.