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BBC Gaza Film Considered a 'Major' Violation of Broadcasting Regulations, Says Broadcasting Watchdog
The BBC was found to have committed a "significant breach" of industry standards by failing to disclose that the presenter of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the son of a Hamas official, as determined by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An inquiry by the media regulator into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the film was "significantly deceptive".
The BBC's director general had earlier expressed regret, saying there had been "a serious error in relation to factual correctness".
Ofcom has directed the corporation to air a evening declaration about its decisions.
"As this represents a significant violation of our rules, we are directing the BBC to air a announcement of our conclusions against it on BBC2 at 21:00, with a schedule to be determined," it said.
'Possibility to Undermine Confidence'
The watchdog's statement declared: "Our probe concluded that the programme's failure to disclose that the narrator's parent served in a role in the Hamas-run administration was significantly deceptive.
"This implied that the public did not have essential details which may have been very significant to their judgment of the voice and the content he provided.
"Confidence is at the core of the relationship between a media organization and its public, notably for a state-funded media outlet such as the BBC.
"This error had the potential to damage the very considerable amounts of trust that the public would have put in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Gaza conflict."
The film was pulled from the BBC's streaming service in February after the presenter's family links emerged, and in the month of July an internal BBC review determined it breached the corporation's editorial guidelines on factual correctness.
A BBC spokesperson commented: "The regulator's decision is in accordance with the conclusions of the internal assessment, that there was a significant failing in the film in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on truthfulness, which reflects regulation 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We expressed regret for this and we accept the authority's determination in full. We will comply with the sanction as soon as the timing and language are finalised."
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