BBC/Amjad Al Fayauri/Hoyo FilmsA BBC documentary about Gaza violated the editorial guidelines on accuracy by failing to disclose the narrator, the son of a Hamas officer, found in the corporation’s review.
BBC Director General Tim Davi reviewed in Gaza: How to escape a warzone, it was drew by iplayer In February, when the boy’s family connections came out.
The review found that the independent production company, Hoyo Films, takes most responsibility for failure. But it also said that the BBC has bored some responsibility and should have done more in its inspection.
The BBC said the program should not have been signed, and it was taking appropriate action on accountability.
The review found that three members of the independent production company knew about the father’s status as the Deputy Minister of Agriculture in the Hamas-Run government in Gaza, but no one knew it before the broadcast within the BBC.
However, the report criticized “not enough” for the BBC team’s initial editorial probe, and for “not sufficiently active” for “unanimous or partially replied questions” to be “unanswered or partially answered”.
The review also said that it had “no evidence to support the suggestion that the narrator’s father or family in any way impressed the contents of the program”.
It said that the scripted contribution of the narrator in the program did not violate proper fairness.
However, the report concluded that the use of the child narrator for the program was “not appropriate” in circumstances.
Speaking after his publication, BBC News CEO Debora Tourness Told the world of Radio 4 on one: “We are making mistakes where we have made mistakes, to find out whether the wrong is acting on the conclusions, and we have said that we are sorry.”
He said that the BBC figures that oversee the documentary should have been known about the position of the boy before the transmission, “because his questions should have been answered by the independent production company”.
The BBC said that several steps were taking to prevent similar violations from being repeated:
- The corporation will create a new leadership role in news documentaries and current affairs. The role of the new director on the BBC News Board, which will be advertised in the next week, will have a strategic leadership of its long form output in the news division
- New editorial guidance will be issued that the use of storytellers in the field of programs fought cases should be carefully considered, and that the narrators will be subject to high level investigation
- A new “First Gate” process will be initiated, meaning “any high-risk long form programs can be formally commissioned until all possible compliance ideas are not considered and listed”
The review found that the production company did not deliberately mislead the BBC, saying: “They made a mistake, and the BBC should have informed about it. The BBC also bulls some responsibility for this failure.”
Hoyo Films stated that it took the review conclusions “very seriously” and said “it apologizes for the mistake that resulted in a violation of editorial guidelines”.
The company said it was happy that the report found that “there was no evidence of unfair effects on the content of the documentary from any third party”.
It said that it welcomed the recommendations of the report and “Hope they would improve processes and prevent similar problems in the future”.
Hoyo Films said it would work closely with the BBC to detect the possibility of re -edited for the collection on the iPlayer and using certain materials for re -versions.
BBC Director General Tim Davi apologized, stating that the report “identifies a significant failure in relation to accuracy”.
“Now we will take action on two fronts,” they continued. “Immediate implementation of steps to prevent appropriate, clear and appropriate action and such errors to prevent proper accountability.”
The corporation did not name any person facing disciplinary action.
As part of the review, a financial examination found that a fee of £ 795 was paid for the narrator, her adult sister was paid, not out of the range of an amount which could “be appropriate in reference”.
The boy also got another hand mobile phone and gift card for computer games. With the fee, it was a total value of £ 1,817.
The review also found that there was “significant resource stress within both production company and BBC” before the program broadcast.
After the review of the review, when he was asked if he still trusts Davi, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandi said: “It is not for the government to say who should work in the BBC and who should not.”
“My job is to ensure that we maintain the highest standards and the public and Parliament may believe in the BBC.
“I think, in view of recent events, which have been called in question, but in recent weeks the BBC has made great progress to try to reset that relationship with the public, and has shown that they have a grip on very serious issues.”
Nandi said that he met Davi and BBC President Sameer Shah last week. He said: “It is important that the BBC has admitted that there has been a series of frightening failures in recent weeks.”
The review was organized by Peter Johnson, who was the director of the BBC of editorial complaints and reviews.
The BBC stated that the team identified 5,000 documents from 10 months of production period and considered 5,000 documents, as well as 150 hours of content filmed during production, to inform the findings of Mr. Johnson, the BBC said.
The BBC board said: “There is nothing more important than trust and transparency in our journalism. We welcome the tasks that are working to avoid being repeated in the executive future.”
But the campaign against Antisemitism, after the report was published, launched a scary attack on the BBC, stating that its recommendations were “clearly derogatory”.
The CAA said, “The report says that we did not already know anything: paying the license fee to the Hamas family was poor.” “The report has no new information, and almost reads as it is trying to exclude the BBC.”
More than 40 Jewish television officers, including former BBC material chief Danny Cohen and JK Rowling agent Neil Blair, were written to BBC with questions about editorial failures around the film.
separately, 500 media figures Gary Linekar, Anita Rani, Riz Ahmed and Mirium Margolis signed an open letter in support of the film in February.
Broadcasting regulator CEO Dame Melani Dawes said that BBC was slow for broadcast of broadcast of Bob Valn’s controversial set in Glstonbury along with Gaza documentary.
Speaking from Sunday with Laura Kunsberg, he said that there was a “real risk”, recent events could “loss of confidence” in Broadcasters, saying: “It is very disappointing that the BBC has some goals in this field.”
In June, BBC Gaza: Doctors Draw another documentary called Under AttackIt was around production due to fairness concerns. The film was then aired by Channel 4.
