Tim Davie admits ‘significant failing’ by BBC over Gaza documentary | BBC
Tim Davie, General Manager of the BBC, admitted that the publisher had made a “significant failure üzerinde on a documentary about children in Gaza.
Senior BBC figures agreed that programmakers did not ask the right questions about the construction of Gaza: how a war will survive. An internal investigation found that the audience should be aware of the “critical information ğı that the 13 -year -old narrator was the son of a Hamas official.
However, the investigation could not find any other directive violation, including impartiality in production. It concluded that the external interests were “not affected by the program in an inappropriate manner” and that no payment is made to people under financial sanctions.
DAVI and BBC are repeatedly condemned by the cultural secretary Lisa Nandy, who seems to have reached the lowest relationship with Davie after a series of events and seem to have reached the lowest relationship with Davie.
Nandy in Davie, Nandy, said in recent weeks that there were a number of “catastrophic failures” by the BBC. Gaza said that BBC responded to documentary findings, “Such errors should never be repeated,” he said.
He said: “The people rightly await the highest standards from the BBC and the company. He should learn from the findings of the report and act quickly. The accurate and impartial reports about the conflict in Gaza and the events in the Middle East are absolutely important. This should be done with maximum care and sensitivity to ensure public confidence.”
Nandy wanted to know why no one lost his job through a documentary error. Davie said, “Fair, open and appropriate actions to provide appropriate accountability”. No one has been rejected so far.
The long -awaited report was published in an investigation into the behavior of Gregg Wallace on the same day, which confirmed 45 allegations, including inappropriate sexual language allegations and unwanted physical contact. The BBC admitted that opportunities were missed to deal with his behavior.
Review of Gaza: In February, BBC Two released and then removed from a war that was removed from IPlayer, the BBC’s editorial complaints and investigations director Peter Johnston was held.
The program found that three members of the independent production company Hogyo Films know the position of the father, but the BBC was not informed. The investigation concluded that Hogy films did not deliberately direct the BBC, but overflowed the most responsibility for failure.
However, the BBC was accused of not being proactive sufficiently ”with the first editorial controls and the lack of critical supervision of unanswered or partially answered questions”. BBC figures asked the narrator’s father’s connections, but these queries remained unanswered.
Furthermore, he could not find any “reasonable basis” to conclude that everyone who was engaged or paid in connection with the program was subject to financial sanctions. The narrator’s adult sister paid 795 £. The narrator was given a second -hand mobile phone and a gift card for a computer game. The narrator, his father, mother and sister were checked for financial sanctions against them.
Davie said that the report has determined an important failure in this documentary. I apologize for this failure.
He announced a number of changes, including the new “improved editorial controls .. “High -risk” long -shaped programs will not be officially commissioned until all compliance issues, including “meticulous social media and background controls”.
Although the BBC has not announced that no one has been separated as a result of the incident, it creates a role at the level of board of directors that controls news documentaries and current jobs. The president of the existing jobs reveals questions about the future of Joanna Carr.
Deborah Turness, General Manager of BBC News, told Person that the program made a “important mistake”.
“This seems to be good enough, and this is not good enough, Deborah Turness has questions to be answered as the head of the news.”
Gaza report and Wallace findings mean that DAVI is facing the most challenging week of the BBC’s five -year leadership. Nandy also criticized the fact that Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury performance could not cut live oath. During the live stream, Bobby Vylan, whose real name is Pascal Robinson-Foster, referred to the Israeli defense forces and directed the cheering of “death, IDF to IDF”.
In a pointed attack on Davie in the House of Commons, Nandy said that an editorial mistake was “something to be caught. This is rejected by senior BBC figures.
Meanwhile, the company was internally criticized for failing to publish a second documentary on the situation of medical staff in Gaza. Program, Gaza: Doctors under the attack were finally shown with Channel 4.
