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BBC Gaza Film Deemed a 'Major' Violation of Broadcasting Rules, States Ofcom
The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of industry standards by omitting to mention that the voice of a documentary about Gaza was the offspring of a Hamas administrator, as determined by regulatory body Ofcom.
An inquiry by the broadcasting watchdog into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the programme was "substantially inaccurate".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, saying there had been "a serious error in relation to truthfulness".
Ofcom has instructed the broadcaster to transmit a prime-time declaration about its conclusions.
"Since this amounts to a significant violation of our rules, we are ordering the corporation to air a statement of our findings against it on the BBC's second channel at nine o'clock in the evening, with a timing to be determined," the regulator stated.
'Possibility to Undermine Trust'
The watchdog's statement declared: "Our investigation found that the film's failure to disclose that the narrator's parent held a role in the Hamas-controlled government was substantially inaccurate.
"This implied that the audience did not have critical information which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the presenter and the information he presented.
"Confidence is at the core of the bond between a media organization and its audience, notably for a national broadcasting corporation such as the BBC.
"This oversight had the risk to erode the exceptionally strong amounts of confidence that audiences would have put in a factual film from the broadcaster about the conflict in Gaza."
The film was removed from iPlayer in last February after the presenter's familial connections came to light, and in this past July an internal BBC review concluded it infringed the organization's journalistic standards on factual correctness.
A BBC spokesperson commented: "The Ofcom ruling is in agreement with the conclusions of the internal assessment, that there was a major oversight in the programme in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on factual correctness, which reflects clause 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We have apologised for this and we agree with the authority's determination in its entirety. We will comply with the directive as soon as the schedule and wording are confirmed."
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