Director general apologises and announces changes but faces growing pressure from culture secretary Lisa NandyTim Davie, the BBC’s director general, has admitted the broadcaster made “a significant failing” over a documentary about children in Gaza, after an internal investigation found that the programme breached editorial guidelines for accuracy.Senior BBC figures have acknowledged that programme-makers failed to ask the right questions about the making of Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone. An internal investigation found viewers should have been made aware of the “critical information” that the 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official. Continue reading...
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