Albom: How Trump’s BBC edit reflects a bigger journalism issue

Last week, President Donald Trump threatened to sue the British Broadcasting Corporation for splicing together two of his sound bites to make it sound like one.

He could have blamed the French.

After all, it was a French magician, George Méliès , who, in the late 19 th century, accidentally invented the editing technique that ultimately led, 130 years later, to the BBC’s faux pas.