“The BBC’s Director-General Tim Davie Has Admitted There Were “Unanswered Questions” that short have “followed Up” over the company’s scandal-hit gaza Documentary. Davie Defended His Journalists to the UK’s Culture, Media and Sport Committe and Claiimed No One Needs “Any Proding” on An Independent Investigation while Ludyne speaking at a parlianta. Last”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Davie Defended His Journalists to the UK’s Culture, Media and Sport Committe and Claiimed No One Needs “Any Proding” on An Independent Investigation while Ludyne speaking at a parlianta.
Last Week, The Corporation Apologized and Removed Gaza: How to Survive A Warzoneabout the Lives of Three Children Caunght in the israel-Gaza War, from Its Streaming Service BBC IPlayer. It was discovered that one of the 13-year-stubs, Abdullah al-yazur, is the Son of Hamas’ deputy minister of agriculture, leading to widespread. terrorists. ”
“Nothing’s More Important Than We Are Trusted,” Davie Began Alongside Board Chair Samir Shah Shah on Tuesday. “I Think There’s A Lot of FrUstration and Disappeintment. It’s not about the bbc and people likelf, But We’re Very Sorry to the Audence, Because We Don’t Want to Be in A Position Where We Have Flaws in the Program-Making.
After Davie Defended His Journalists Who Are Under “Enormous Pressure”, He Added: “at the end of the day as editor-in-in-chief, I have to be secre-not. TRUST IN THAT FILM. Therefore i have the take the decaution to take it off iPlayer… there were unanswered questations from the BBC, ”he added. “That should have been followed up.”
“I’m not ruling it out,” Davie Said WHEN Asked if the Doc Could Be Re-Uploaded Following Approprital Edits. Media Figures Such as Actors Riz Ahmed, Khalid Abdalla, Miriam Margolyes and Director Mike Leigh Are Among The 1000+ Signatories of An Open Letterts. On the platform.
“We don’t need any Prodding,” he said in reference to an investigation on the Economics of Who Was Paid and When, As Well As Organizing An Independent Review of The Film. “As I Understand It Today, The BBC Has Only Made One Payment. This was for a license fee to the Program Maker, the Independent [company, to make the film]. The Initial Assessment of the Economics Showed Thats A Small Payment To The Sister [of Abdullah]; IT’s A Totally Normal Payment Because the Boy Recorded the Narration and Went to a Studio to do it… [Hoyo Films] have written to US VERY CLEARLY SAYING NO MONEY HAS GONE TO HAMAS, But Absolutely have to do that work. ”
Shah Backed Up His Colleague and Said there will be an Independent Review of the Film. Thought he was candid over his personal “shock” at seeing the “Serious Failings on Both sides” who the interim report came in. “The Standards of the BBC Are Very Good,” Shah Said. “They’re very strong… so i worry that it wasn’t so much the process that were at fault, [but] People Wrening their Job. ”
WHEN ASKED ABOUT The Petition from Artists for Palestine UK, Shah Responded: “I Want to Make It Quite Clear Thats The Idea That Wee Sesa Wht’s Idea. I do not want anybody to think that’s not the case. What We’re Talking About is the Execution of that Idea and the Level of Trust That Took Place in the BBC, and the Independent Production Company. ”
A bbc spokesperson told Thr On Sunday: “Durying The Production Process, The Independent Production Company Was Asked in Writing A Number of Times by The BBC, About Any Potential Connections He and His Family Might HAVY. Since Transmission, they have acknowledged that knew that the boy’s facher was a deputy agriculture minister in the hamas government; They have also acknowledged that they never told the bbc this fact. It Was Ten The Bbc’s Own Failing That We Did Not Uncover That Fact and The Documentary Was Aired. ”