![]() MSNBC later aired an unedited video of the testimony, inviting viewers to decide for themselves whether the response to Heslin's challenge was "heckling" or not. Bashir's edited companion footage included neither Heslin's challenge request nor the period of silence, allowing Bashir to describe the clip as "a father's grief interrupted by the cries of a heckler." The edited footage also omitted Heslin's remarks on respecting different opinions. Heslin issued a challenge to provide a reason why carrying an assault weapon was necessary after a short period of silence, a member of the audience yelled out a quote from the Second Amendment in response. In January 2013, Bashir was criticised for misleading viewers by airing an edited clip of Neil Heslin, whose son was killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, testifying in court. ![]() In August 2010, Bashir left ABC for MSNBC, where he served as a political commentator and occasional substitute host for Lawrence O'Donnell, hosted his own programme, Martin Bashir, and was a correspondent for NBC's Dateline NBC. I … hope that the continuing work of the organization will not be harmed or undermined by my moment of stupidity." He wrote an apology to the journalists association which stated, "Upon reflection, it was a tasteless remark that I now bitterly regret. I'm happy that the podium covers me from the waist down." He continued and said a speech should be "like a dress on a beautiful woman – long enough to cover the important parts and short enough to keep your interest – like my colleague Juju's", referring to his ABC News colleague Juju Chang, a reporter for 20/20. He said, "I'm happy to be in the midst of so many Asian babes. In 2008, while working as a reporter for Nightline, Bashir was suspended from ABC News after making remarks in a speech at the Asian American Journalists Association convention in Chicago that were described as " crude and sexist". In 2004, Bashir moved to New York, where he worked for ABC, co-anchoring their current affairs show Nightline along with Cynthia McFadden and Terry Moran, he took over Nightline from Ted Koppel in 2005. In 1999 he joined ITV, working on special documentary programmes and features for Tonight with Trevor McDonald. ![]() For Panorama, he interviewed Diana, Princess of Wales in a 1995 edition. He worked for the BBC until 1999, on programmes including Songs of Praise, Public Eye and Panorama. Bashir said in 2019, "Every time I have faced a challenge I have heard him whispering saying, 'What excuse do you have? You have no excuse.'" Career BBC and ITV īashir was a freelance sports journalist before joining the BBC in 1986. Bashir dedicated his decisions in life to his late brother, including his appearance on The X Factor: Celebrity. īashir was one of five children, one of whom suffered from muscular dystrophy and died in 1991. Bashir was educated at the boys' state comprehensive Wandsworth School, King Alfred's College of Higher Education, Winchester, studying English and History from 1982 to 1985 (at the time, degrees at King Alfred's were approved by the Council for National Academic Awards), and at King's College London, where he completed a master's degree in theology. His father served in the Royal Navy during World War II. ![]() He converted to Christianity in his teens. Early life and education īashir was born and raised in Wandsworth, London, to liberal Muslim parents from Pakistan. Former Justice of the Supreme Court Lord Dyson conducted an independent inquiry and concluded that Bashir had commissioned fake statements to deceive Earl Spencer to gain access to Diana, and in so doing had "acted inappropriately and in serious breach of the 1993 edition of the Producers' Guidelines on straight dealing." Bashir resigned from the BBC in May 2021, citing health reasons. In 2020, the BBC's director general Tim Davie apologised to the princess's brother, Earl Spencer, for Bashir's use of faked bank statements to secure his 1995 Panorama interview with her. In 2016, he returned to the BBC as a religious affairs correspondent. He resigned from MSNBC in December 2013 after making "ill-judged" comments about former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. From 2004 to 2016, he worked in New York-first as an anchor for ABC's Nightline, then as a political commentator for MSNBC, hosting his own programme, Martin Bashir, and a correspondent for NBC's Dateline NBC. He presented the 2003 ITV documentary about Michael Jackson. ![]() īashir worked for the BBC from 1986 to 1999 on programmes including Panorama before joining ITV. Although the interview was much heralded at the time, it was later determined that he used forgery and deception to gain it. He was a presenter on British and American television and for the BBC's Panorama programme, for which he gained an interview with Diana, Princess of Wales under false pretenses in 1995. Martin Henry Bashir (born 19 January 1963) is a British journalist. ![]()
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