BBC Pulls Newsnight Episode After Matt Chorley Misquotes Nigel Farage 3 Times
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Updated · BBC.com · Jun 3
BBC Pulls Newsnight Episode After Matt Chorley Misquotes Nigel Farage 3 Times
3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Jun 3
Summary
Matt Chorley apologized after saying Nigel Farage used the phrase “white cold rage” on Newsnight, when Farage had said “pure cold rage” in comments about the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak.
The BBC also apologized, called the quote a mistake, and removed Tuesday’s episode from iPlayer and BBC Sounds after Chorley repeated the wrong wording three times during an interview with Kemi Badenoch.
Nigel Farage said his legal team had written to the BBC demanding a full on-air apology and an investigation, while Reform argued the misquote falsely injected a racial meaning into his remarks.
The dispute comes amid wider anger over the Nowak case: killer Vickrum Digwa received life with a minimum 21-year term, and protests in Southampton on Tuesday left 11 officers and a police dog injured.