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BBC Boss Tim Davie Survives His Darkest Days, But Insiders Say He Is Severely Wounded After Numerous Gaza-Related Scandals
BBC chief Tim Davie is facing searching questions over whether he has got a handle on the Gaza issues roiling his workforce and audiences.
The director general has endured a brutal week after the UK national broadcaster live-streamed scenes of Glastonbury act Bob Vylan chanting “death to the IDF” and moaning about “working for f***ing Zionists,” despite producers acknowledging before the festival that the punk band was at “high risk” of offending viewers. The avoidable editorial error collided with Channel 4 broadcasting Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary that the BBC formally scotched just days earlier amid a rancorous dispute over the impartiality of the filmmakers involved in telling the stories of warzone medics. June 2024 – More than 100 Jewish industry figures sign an open letter to Davie expressing “disbelief” at the decision to engage cricket World Cup commentator Qasim Sheikh, who was accused of fanning antisemitism on social media.
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