Why the BBC is facing its gravest crisis in decades

The British public service broadcaster apologized on November 10 for a misleadingly edited documentary about President Trump. But the scandal had already claimed two of its top executives

It is tempting to view the sudden resignation of two top BBC executives on November 9, in the wake of scathing criticism by the Trump administration, as an extraterritorial example of the intense pressure that President Donald Trump has put on broadcast news organizations in the United States.
But the British Broadcasting Corp is not CBS or ABC, both of which settled lawsuits brought by Trump over their coverage of him. Its current crisis — the gravest the BBC has faced in decades — is less about Trump, experts said, than about the insoluble tensions of a renowned public service broadcaster operating in a bitterly divided political and media world.