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BBC Gaza Film Deemed a 'Significant' Violation of Media Standards, States Ofcom
The British broadcaster engaged in a "serious breach" of media regulations by omitting to mention that the narrator of a programme about Gaza was the child of a Hamas representative, as determined by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An inquiry by Ofcom into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the programme was "significantly deceptive".
The BBC's director general had earlier expressed regret, noting there had been "a major oversight in relation to truthfulness".
The regulator has ordered the corporation to air a evening announcement about its decisions.
"As this represents a significant violation of our regulations, we are directing the broadcaster to broadcast a statement of our findings against it on BBC Two at 9pm, with a date to be confirmed," the statement read.
'Potential to Damage Trust'
The authority's report declared: "The inquiry we conducted concluded that the documentary's failure to disclose that the presenter's parent held a position in the Hamas-controlled administration was significantly deceptive.
"Consequently that the public did not have critical information which may have been very significant to their judgment of the voice and the information he presented.
"Credibility is at the heart of the relationship between a television network and its public, especially for a public service broadcaster such as the BBC.
"This failing had the possibility to undermine the exceptionally strong amounts of trust that the public would have put in a documentary produced by the BBC about the conflict in Gaza."
The programme was withdrawn from the BBC's streaming service in last February after the narrator's personal associations emerged, and in this past July an broadcaster's internal assessment determined it infringed the broadcaster's content policies on factual correctness.
A BBC spokesperson stated: "The Ofcom ruling is in line with the conclusions of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a serious error in the film in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on accuracy, which aligns with clause 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We issued an apology for this and we comply with Ofcom's decision in its entirety. We will adhere to the sanction as soon as the date and language are finalised."
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