BBC under fire over Trump coverage

Uh oh. The Beeb’s back in the spotlight – and this time it’s over some rather interesting reporting on the inauguration of Donald Trump. A new row over BBC bias has broken out after part of its coverage suggested the Republican’s election victory was built on ‘fear’. Er, right.

The corporation’s senior North America correspondent John Sudworth told viewers on Monday that ‘it was fear that gave Mr Trump his mandate’, adding:

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump drove his message of fear all the way to the White House but it was based on a misconception. Rather than an invasion, America has long been dependent on the work of these migrants in agriculture and manufacturing, making them both essential and dispensable…For his opponents these feel like dizzying and dark times.

Talk about doom and gloom, eh?

Viewers were quick to call out Sudworth – whose segment appeared in a report that also included an interview with an, er, undocumented migrant living in the US – taking to Twitter to complain that the Beeb’s journalists seemed unable to hide their disdain for the new president.