Media watchdog Ofcom has ruled that the BBC documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone broke the broadcasting code by failing to disclose that the narrator’s father was a member of Hamas. The BBC has already admitted the doc breached its own editorial guidelines…
Now Ofcom has come to the same obvious conclusion:
“Our investigation found that the programme’s failure to disclose that the narrator’s father held a position in the Hamas-run administration was materially misleading. It meant that the audience did not have critical information which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the narrator and the information he provided.”
The breach is so serious that the BBC will now have to air a statement of Ofcom’s findings against it on BBC2 at 9pm, with the date pending. A howler for the broadcaster…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”