UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy Cools Attacks On BBC, Praising “Big Strides” In Gripping Crises

BBC says documentary on Gaza children ’breached guidelines’

A BBC documentary about children's lives in Gaza breached editorial guidelines on accuracy because it failed to disclose that the program was narrated by the son of a Gaza government official, according to a report published Monday. The broadcaster removed the program, Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone, from its streaming service in February after it emerged that the 13-year-old narrator, Abdullah, is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, a former deputy min…

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy Cools Attacks On BBC, Praising “Big Strides” In Gripping Crises

UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy has reduced the temperature of her attacks on the BBC after the publication of two damning reports into misconduct allegations against Gregg Wallace and editorial failings on documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone. Nandy has been highly critical of the BBC in a series of unusual interventions this month, […]

Burying Genocide - The BBC, Gaza And The Role Of The UK

One might naively think that a national public-service broadcaster would inform the public about matters of national interest. Surely no reasonable person would deny that the public has a right to know what the government is doing in our name. But, over and above this basic requirement, a responsible public-service broadcaster should also scrutinise the government’s actions and statements, and challenge them robustly. Instead, as Declassified UK…