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The defamation laws in Great Britain are much more plaintiff-friendly than those in the USA. BBC will cave because they have to. You can't deliberately mislead by the way you edit.
Again, what you seem to fail to recognize is that this wasn't simply a mistake or error of editorial judgment. It was a deliberate effort by the BBC to edit Trump's speech to cast him in the worst possible light.
And if the case isn't settled and gets into discovery, the thousands of emails, texts, notes, and other evidence will prove that was the motivation--i.e. a "reckless disregard" for the truth.
They don't care about the settlement dollars, $16 million was chump change for CBS, a fraction of the legal fees it would have cost them to go to trial.
The defendants are trying to avoid a punitive damages verdict which could well be in the billions, or if not, the hundreds of millions.
That would be catastrophic.
Since you don't live in reality, and only see things one way, in your tunnel-vision leftist manner, and since you do not have to personally be responsible for being wrong and on the losing end of a multi hundreds of millions of dollars verdict; and you don't have to worry about the case flushing out for all the public to see the incredible bias at the BBC; you don't consider what would happen if your biases don't happen to coincide with reality.
However, the people running the BBC and their solicitors DO have to worry about such things.
