{"id":40987,"date":"2019-09-28T06:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40987"},"modified":"2019-09-28T06:22:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T06:22:19","slug":"bbc-slammed-for-reprimanding-anchor-who-called-out-trumps-racist-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40987","title":{"rendered":"BBC slammed for reprimanding anchor who called out Trump&#8217;s racist language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN Business)<\/cite>The BBC faces a growing backlash and calls to overturn its decision to reprimand an anchor for her comments about US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/15\/politics\/donald-trump-racist-tweets-democrats\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Trump that said four US lawmakers<\/a> \u2014 all women of color -\u2014 should &#8220;go back&#8221; to the &#8220;places from which they came.&#8221; <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Controversy over the decision to reprimand Munchetty deepened Friday when the BBC&#8217;s director of editorial policy and standards, David Jordan, said it&#8217;s &#8220;probably unwise&#8221; for the BBC to label people as liars or racists.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}