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British Broadcasting Corporation Gaza Programme Deemed a 'Serious' Infringement of Media Standards, States Ofcom
The BBC engaged in a "serious breach" of industry standards by not revealing that the presenter of a documentary about Gaza was the son of a Hamas official, according to British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An inquiry by the broadcasting watchdog into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the documentary was "substantially inaccurate".
The BBC's director general had earlier expressed regret, saying there had been "a serious error in relation to truthfulness".
The authority has directed the corporation to broadcast a prime-time announcement about its findings.
"Since this amounts to a major infringement of our code, we are directing the BBC to broadcast a announcement of our determinations against it on the BBC's second channel at nine o'clock in the evening, with a date to be confirmed," the regulator stated.
'Risk to Damage Trust'
The authority's report said: "Our investigation concluded that the film's lack of disclosure that the voice's parent held a role in the Hamas-run government was substantially inaccurate.
"This implied that the public did not have essential details which may have been extremely pertinent to their judgment of the narrator and the content he presented.
"Trust is at the heart of the relationship between a media organization and its viewers, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the BBC.
"This failing had the possibility to erode the significantly high degrees of confidence that viewers would have placed in a BBC factual programme about the Israel-Gaza war."
The programme was pulled from iPlayer in February after the narrator's personal associations came to light, and in this past July an broadcaster's internal assessment found it breached the broadcaster's journalistic standards on factual correctness.
A BBC spokesperson said: "The Ofcom ruling is in accordance with the findings of the internal assessment, that there was a major oversight in the film in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on factual correctness, which aligns with regulation 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We expressed regret for this and we comply with the authority's determination in full. We will follow the directive as soon as the timing and language are determined."
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