Update: Ofcom has confirmed it is launching an investigation into the BBC’s reporting under its accuracy rules.
A spokesperson for Ofcom said: “We have reviewed the BBC’s final response to complaints about this news programme. We consider it raises issues under our due accuracy rules and have launched an investigation.”
The BBC has apologized over its coverage of an antisemitic hate incident in central London following an internal investigation.
The BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit (Ecu) investigated both a BBC website article and a broadcast report that critics said “victim-blamed” a bus full of Jewish students who were abused on London’s Oxford Street shopping district while celebrating Hanukkah.
The Ecu concluded that the broadcast did “not breach editorial standards” but partly upheld the complaints over lack of accuracy and impartiality.
The complaints stem from a Dec. 2021 article on the BBC’s website reporting on an incident when...
A spokesperson for Ofcom said: “We have reviewed the BBC’s final response to complaints about this news programme. We consider it raises issues under our due accuracy rules and have launched an investigation.”
The BBC has apologized over its coverage of an antisemitic hate incident in central London following an internal investigation.
The BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit (Ecu) investigated both a BBC website article and a broadcast report that critics said “victim-blamed” a bus full of Jewish students who were abused on London’s Oxford Street shopping district while celebrating Hanukkah.
The Ecu concluded that the broadcast did “not breach editorial standards” but partly upheld the complaints over lack of accuracy and impartiality.
The complaints stem from a Dec. 2021 article on the BBC’s website reporting on an incident when...
- 1/26/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
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