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BBC Gaza Film Deemed a 'Serious' Breach of Media Rules, States Ofcom
The BBC engaged in a "major breach" of media regulations by omitting to mention that the presenter of a film about Gaza was the child of a Hamas representative, as ruled by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An investigation by Ofcom into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the programme was "materially misleading".
The BBC's director general had earlier expressed regret, saying there had been "a major oversight in relation to factual correctness".
The regulator has directed the broadcaster to transmit a peak-time declaration about its conclusions.
"As this represents a major infringement of our code, we are instructing the BBC to broadcast a announcement of our conclusions against it on the BBC's second channel at 9pm, with a date to be finalised," it said.
'Potential to Undermine Trust'
The regulator's report said: "Our probe determined that the film's omission to reveal that the narrator's father held a position in the Hamas-administered government was materially misleading.
"Consequently that the viewers did not have critical information which may have been extremely pertinent to their assessment of the presenter and the content he provided.
"Trust is at the core of the bond between a television network and its audience, notably for a national broadcasting corporation such as the BBC.
"This error had the risk to damage the very considerable amounts of trust that audiences would have invested in a BBC factual programme about the Gaza conflict."
The programme was pulled from iPlayer in the month of February after the boy's personal associations were revealed, and in this past July an corporation's own inquiry found it infringed the organization's journalistic standards on truthfulness.
A corporation official said: "The Ofcom ruling is in line 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 accuracy, which corresponds to clause 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We have apologised for this and we agree with the regulator's ruling in complete. We will adhere to the penalty as soon as the timing and wording are determined."
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