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1. One of the types of humor editorial cartoonists use is irony. Irony is defined as when the opposite of what you expect to happen occurs. Describe the irony in this cartoon.
2. What is the BBC? What is its mission?
3. To what recent news stories regarding an intentionally false and misleading BBC report on a Jan 6, 2021 Donald Trump speech does this cartoon refer? (The cartoonist can also be illustrating a number of anti-Israel “news” reports since the Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023.)
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Answers
1. One of the types of humor editorial cartoonists use is irony. Irony is defined as when the opposite of what you expect to happen occurs. Describe the irony in this cartoon.
You expect anyone working for the BBC to be impartial and committed to reporting the facts. In this case, the applicant hates facts but is enthusiastically hired by the BBC.
2. What is the BBC? What is its mission?
The BBC, or British Broadcasting Corporation, is a British public-service broadcaster that is the world’s leading public service broadcaster. It provides television, radio, and digital services, to inform, educate, and entertain millions of people in the UK and around the world. The BBC is principally funded by the license fee paid by UK households.
The BBC’s mission is to act in the public interest by providing impartial, high-quality, and distinctive content. Its five public purposes are to provide impartial news and information, educate and inform audiences, show the UK to the world, support and promote public service broadcasting, and to make and commission programs of quality and creativity.
3. To what recent news stories regarding an intentionally false and misleading BBC report on a Jan 6, 2021 Donald Trump speech does this cartoon refer? (The cartoonist can also be illustrating a number of anti-Israel “news” reports since the Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023.)
A November 2025 leaked internal BBC memo detailed how the BBC intentionally misled viewers to make Donald Trump appear to be calling for violence by splicing two parts of his January 6, 2021 speech together to distort the facts – to make viewers believe Trump was calling on his supporters to be violent, when in fact it was the opposite.
