BBC twists truth trying to justify ‘disgraceful’ Trump-Greenland coverage

On 7 January, journalist Owen Jones publicly complained about the BBC’s ‘disgraceful’ coverage of the US’s colonial ambitions:

Complain about the BBC's Orwellian description of Trump's threatened invasion of Greenland here 👇https://t.co/dxDNBrSm9V pic.twitter.com/pD50YapmUx

— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) January 7, 2026

Now, the BBC has responded, and as ever, they’re positive they’ve done nothing wrong.

Purposefully misleading from the BBC

This is the response Jones received:

The problem is that this response is blatantly misleading. Here’s what the host actually said in the shared video (emphasis added):

Welcome to breakfast with Sally Nugent and John Kay. Our headlines for you today:

Using the American military to acquire Greenland. The White House says it’s one of the options President Trump and his team are discussing.

If the BBC had said ‘Trump is considering several options to acquire Greenland‘, then there would have been an argument for ‘acquire’, because the word would cover America purchasing Greenland or taking it by force. They did not do that, however. They referenced one option – the option of using the military – and they used the word ‘acquire’ rather than something more fitting like ‘take’, ‘annex’, ‘colonise’, or ‘overthrow’.

In other words, they haven’t been honest here.

Other terms we might use are they ‘lied’ or they ‘fed Jones a load of old bollocks’.

Maybe the BBC is terrified of getting sued by Trump again, but we’ll be honest; they’re not going to save their reputation by doubling down on being the British Bullshit Corporation.

Jones said the following in response:

I asked the BBC to explain their absurd coverage of Trump’s threatened invasion of Greenland.

I asked if they’d adopt the same editorial approach if Russia threatened to invade and annex Latvia.

This is their response.

WTF @bbcpress 😂😂😂

He isn’t the only one calling them out either:

Both ITV and the BBC have switched to reporting that the USA is trying to acquire Greenland.

They have started with the apologism before it has even happened.

— BladeoftheSun (@BladeoftheS) January 7, 2026

Zarah Sultana said of the BBC:

From Gaza to Venezuela to Greenland, the BBC is failing in its duty to the public.

In its coverage of the genocide in Gaza, Israeli fatalities received 33 times more coverage per death than Palestinians. Claims of genocide were shut down, a Gaza medics documentary was pulled and Israeli government narratives were repeatedly prioritised and presented as fact.

The same language laundering is again on display: the US invading Greenland is reframed as an “acquisition” and the kidnapping of Venezuela’s President is reduced to a “capture”.

We don’t pay our licence fee for the BBC to normalise genocide and imperialism.

This isn’t even the BBC’s only scandal this week:

The BBC has been banned from using the word Kidnap to describe the Kidnapping of Maduro.

No doubt when Greenland is invaded they will be banned from using the word invasion.

— BladeoftheSun (@BladeoftheS) January 5, 2026

Who is it for?

As we’ve long reported, the BBC exists to protect the interests of the establishment. If said establishment decides that Greenland belongs to the Epstein-associate running the US, then that’s that.

We wouldn’t say the BBC is bought and paid for, but we might say it’s been ‘acquired’ by establishment interests, and then leave you to decide what definition we’re using.

Featured image via the Canary