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BBC Gaza Programme Considered a 'Significant' Violation of Media Standards, States UK Media Regulator
The public service broadcaster was found to have committed a "major breach" of media regulations by failing to disclose that the narrator of a programme about the Gaza situation was the son of a Hamas official, as determined by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An probe by the media regulator into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the film was "significantly deceptive".
The head of the BBC had previously apologised, noting there had been "a significant failing in relation to factual correctness".
The regulator has instructed the broadcaster to broadcast a peak-time declaration about its decisions.
"Given this constitutes a serious breach of our rules, we are directing the corporation to air a statement of our findings against it on BBC2 at nine o'clock in the evening, with a schedule to be finalised," the regulator stated.
'Risk to Erode Confidence'
The regulator's statement declared: "Our probe concluded that the film's lack of disclosure that the voice's parent held a role in the Hamas-administered administration was significantly deceptive.
"It meant that the public did not have essential details which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the presenter and the information he shared.
"Confidence is at the core of the bond between a broadcaster and its audience, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the public broadcaster.
"This oversight had the risk to undermine the exceptionally strong levels of confidence that the public would have invested in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Gaza conflict."
The documentary was withdrawn from iPlayer in February after the narrator's family links came to light, and in July an corporation's own inquiry determined it breached the organization's editorial guidelines on factual correctness.
A representative for the broadcaster stated: "The authority's determination is in accordance with the findings of the internal assessment, that there was a significant failing in the documentary in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on truthfulness, which aligns with regulation 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations.
"We issued an apology for this and we accept the regulator's ruling in its entirety. We will comply with the sanction as soon as the timing and wording are finalised."
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