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British Broadcasting Corporation Gaza Programme Ruled a 'Significant' Infringement of Media Standards, Declares UK Media Regulator
The BBC engaged in a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by not revealing that the narrator of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the offspring of a Hamas official, according to regulatory body Ofcom.
An probe by the media regulator into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the film was "materially misleading".
The BBC's director general had earlier expressed regret, saying there had been "a serious error in relation to factual correctness".
The authority has instructed the BBC to broadcast a peak-time declaration about its findings.
"Given this constitutes a significant violation of our rules, we are directing the BBC to transmit a announcement of our determinations against it on the BBC's second channel at nine o'clock in the evening, with a timing to be confirmed," it said.
'Potential to Erode Trust'
The regulator's announcement stated: "Our probe found that the programme's lack of disclosure that the narrator's parent occupied a post in the Hamas-controlled government was significantly deceptive.
"It meant that the public did not have critical information which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the presenter and the content he presented.
"Trust is at the core of the connection between a broadcaster and its viewers, especially for a state-funded media outlet such as the public broadcaster.
"This oversight had the possibility to damage the significantly high amounts of trust that the public would have put in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Israel-Gaza war."
The film was withdrawn from iPlayer in February after the presenter's familial connections were revealed, and in the month of July an corporation's own inquiry concluded it infringed the broadcaster's journalistic standards on accuracy.
A representative for the broadcaster stated: "The authority's determination is in line with the conclusions of the internal assessment, that there was a serious error in the documentary in relation to the corporation's content standards on truthfulness, which reflects regulation 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We expressed regret for this and we comply with the authority's determination in its entirety. We will adhere to the penalty as soon as the date and language are confirmed."
Joseph Brown
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