London (CNN Business)The BBC faces a growing backlash and calls to overturn its decision to reprimand an anchor for her comments about US President Donald Trump.
The UK broadcaster said this week that morning show anchor Naga Munchetty broke its editorial rules when she appeared to assign a racist motive to a July tweet by Trump that said four US lawmakers — all women of color -— should “go back” to the “places from which they came.”
Controversy over the decision to reprimand Munchetty deepened Friday when the BBC’s director of editorial policy and standards, David Jordan, said it’s “probably unwise” for the BBC to label people as liars or racists.
