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ITV forced to edit Oprah Winfrey's interview with Harry and Meghan after
including 'misleading' headlines

Associated Newspapers said the press clippings were distorted to portray British
coverage as racist

ITV has been forced to edit part of Oprah Winfrey's interview with the Duke
and Duchess of Sussex after it was revealed that it included misleading and
distorted headlines which portrayed British press coverage of the couple as racist.

Headlines that were flashed on the screen during the controversial interview
with the US chat show host were manipulated to back up the couple's the
couple's assertion that they were the victims of bigoted coverage.


Associated Newspapers, the publisher of The Mail on Sunday, Daily Mail and
MailOnline, complained to Viacom CBS – the US TV giant which aired last
week's two-hour programme – about “the deliberate distortion and doctoring
of newspaper headlines”.

It also demanded that ITV remove the “misleading and inaccurate headlines”
from the programme, which remains available on its ITV Hub catch-up
service, according to MailOnline.

In a complaint to CBS, Liz Hartley, editorial legal director at Associated
Newspapers, said: “Many of the headlines have been either taken out of
context or deliberately edited and displayed as supporting evidence for the
programme's claim that the Duchess of Sussex was subjected to racist
coverage by the British press.”

She added: "This editing was not made apparent to viewers and, as a result,
this section of the programme is both seriously inaccurate and misleading".

The programme showed a headline from The Daily Telegraph that read: 'The
real problem with Meghan Markle: she just doesn't speak our language.'

However, the second line of the headline, which was not shown, made clear

the article was not mocking the Duchess’s ethnicity, but her habit of using
“hippie corporate management speak”.

Another example, from January 2018, involved a story in The Mail on Sunday

which revealed how the girlfriend of the then Ukip leader Henry Bolton had
made racist remarks about Meghan.

Producers chose not to show the newspaper's headline about the 'Vile Racist
Attack' but instead used a small part of a MailOnline headline which quoted
one of the woman's vile messages – but omitted the rest of the headline.

An ITV spokesman said it would remove three manipulated Daily Mail,
MailOnline and Mail on Sunday headlines, plus a headline wrongly attributed
to the Guardian.

However, the out-of-context Daily Telegraph headline will remain.

Conservative MP Giles Watling, a member of the Commons Media Select
Committee, said: “Any future broadcasts of this interview should come with a
health warning for viewers.

“People need to know that what they are watching is not necessarily the
truth and, in the use of newspaper headlines, a complete distortion of the
facts.”

Ms Winfrey's company, Harpo Productions, said: “We stand by the broadcast
in its entirety”.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...-harry-meghan/