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BBC To Publish Delayed Review Of Gaza Doc Debacle: “Everyone Feels Like They Could Be The Fall Guy”
The BBC will publish its review into the editorial failings on 'Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone,' but the investigation has not been straightforward.
Peter Johnston, the BBC’s director of editorial complaints and reviews, has examined what led to How to Survive a Warzone being narrated by the child of a Hamas minister, without this crucial fact being declared to audiences. Johnston, a close ally of director-general Tim Davie, has gone through the process of Maxwellisation, a practice that gives individuals the opportunity to respond to criticisms made in an official report. The BBC has also come under pressure from Palestinian sympathizers, including Gary Lineker, Riz Ahmed, and Ken Loach, who have described the decision to remove the film from iPlayer as “censorship.”
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