The BBC has been accused of selectively editing a Panorama documentary to frame a speech by President Trump to make it look like he called for the January 6th riot at the US Capitol building.
In 2025, as newsrooms dedicate extensive resources to covering conflicts in the Middle East, a humanitarian catastrophe unfolds in near-silence. Over 7,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria this year alone, yet this staggering death toll receives a fraction of the media attention devoted to other international crises. This disparity reveals a fundamental failure in how global media organizations decide which lives matter enough to cover.
President Trump's opening remarks at the UN General Assembly might have drawn chuckles, but they captured something profound about the state of international institutions and the media's reluctance to ask hard questions about their effectiveness.