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British Broadcasting Corporation Gaza Film Ruled a 'Significant' Breach of Media Regulations, Says Broadcasting Watchdog
The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of industry standards by failing to disclose that the voice of a documentary about Gaza was the son of a Hamas official, as determined by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An probe by the media regulator into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the programme was "significantly deceptive".
The head of the BBC had earlier expressed regret, noting there had been "a significant failing in relation to truthfulness".
The authority has instructed the broadcaster to broadcast a prime-time statement about its conclusions.
"Since this amounts to a major infringement of our regulations, we are directing the corporation to broadcast a statement of our findings against it on BBC Two at 21:00, with a date to be finalised," it said.
'Possibility to Erode Trust'
The regulator's report said: "Our probe found that the programme's omission to reveal that the presenter's male guardian held a post in the Hamas-controlled administration was materially misleading.
"Consequently that the audience did not have critical information which may have been very significant to their evaluation of the voice and the content he provided.
"Trust is at the heart of the bond between a television network and its audience, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the public broadcaster.
"This oversight had the risk to damage the significantly high degrees of trust that the public would have put in a documentary produced by the BBC about the conflict in Gaza."
The programme was pulled from the BBC's streaming service in February after the boy's family links came to light, and in the month of July an internal BBC review determined it infringed the organization's editorial guidelines on factual correctness.
A representative for the broadcaster commented: "The authority's determination is in accordance with the findings of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a significant failing in the documentary in relation to the corporation's content standards on truthfulness, which corresponds to regulation 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We issued an apology for this and we comply with the authority's determination in complete. We will follow the sanction as soon as the schedule and language are confirmed."
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