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BBC Gaza Documentary Considered a 'Major' Infringement of Broadcasting Rules, Says Ofcom
The British broadcaster engaged in a "significant breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the narrator of a film about the Gaza situation was the offspring of a Hamas official, as ruled by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An probe by Ofcom into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the film was "substantially inaccurate".
The BBC's director general had already issued an apology, saying there had been "a major oversight in relation to factual correctness".
Ofcom has ordered the BBC to air a evening statement about its findings.
"As this represents a major infringement of our code, we are instructing the broadcaster to transmit a message of our conclusions against it on BBC Two at 21:00, with a date to be finalised," the regulator stated.
'Possibility to Erode Confidence'
The watchdog's report stated: "Our probe concluded that the programme's failure to disclose that the voice's male guardian occupied a position in the Hamas-run administration was significantly deceptive.
"This implied that the audience did not have vital facts which may have been extremely pertinent to their assessment of the voice and the content he presented.
"Trust is at the core of the relationship between a media organization and its audience, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the BBC.
"This oversight had the potential to damage the very considerable amounts of trust that audiences would have put in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Gaza conflict."
The programme was withdrawn from the BBC's streaming service in February after the presenter's family links emerged, and in the month of July an corporation's own inquiry found it violated the corporation's editorial guidelines on factual correctness.
A corporation official stated: "The Ofcom ruling is in agreement with the conclusions of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a serious error in the documentary in relation to the corporation's content standards on factual correctness, which aligns with Rule 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We expressed regret for this and we accept the authority's determination in full. We will follow the penalty as soon as the timing and wording are confirmed."
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