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British Broadcasting Corporation Gaza Documentary Ruled a 'Major' Breach of Broadcasting Regulations, Says UK Media Regulator
The public service broadcaster committed a "major breach" of media regulations by omitting to mention that the presenter of a film about Gaza was the offspring of a Hamas administrator, as determined by regulatory body Ofcom.
An probe by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the programme was "materially misleading".
The BBC's director general had earlier expressed regret, saying there had been "a major oversight in relation to factual correctness".
Ofcom has directed the broadcaster to transmit a prime-time statement about its decisions.
"As this represents a major infringement of our regulations, we are ordering the BBC to broadcast a announcement of our conclusions against it on the BBC's second channel at 9pm, with a timing to be finalised," it said.
'Potential to Erode Confidence'
The authority's announcement said: "Our probe found that the documentary's failure to disclose that the voice's father held a role in the Hamas-run administration was materially misleading.
"This implied that the public did not have vital facts which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the voice and the content he provided.
"Credibility is at the center of the relationship between a broadcaster and its public, notably for a state-funded media outlet such as the BBC.
"This oversight had the possibility to damage the exceptionally strong degrees of confidence that viewers would have placed in a factual film from the broadcaster about the conflict in Gaza."
The programme was withdrawn from the online platform in February after the boy's familial connections were revealed, and in this past July an broadcaster's internal assessment found it infringed the broadcaster's journalistic standards on accuracy.
A corporation official said: "The authority's determination is in agreement with the results of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a serious error in the film in relation to the corporation's content standards on accuracy, which reflects clause 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We expressed regret for this and we accept the authority's determination in complete. We will adhere to the directive as soon as the schedule and wording are confirmed."
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