How scandals at Britain’s BBC have rocked its leadership over the years
The BBC’s top leader and head of its news division resigned over criticism of how the broadcaster edited US President Donald Trump’s speech before some of his supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. The scandal leading to Sunday’s resignations is hardly the first controversy to hit Britain’s publicly funded broadcaster - or to topple one of its leaders. The editorially independent British Broadcasting Corporation was founded in 1922 to be impartial, act in the public interest and...