BBC pulls documentaries GAZA MEDICS due to concerns about impartiality

The BBC says he has decided not to broadcast a documentary about Gaza doctors because of the concerns of the impartiality he has around the production.

Gaza: The doctors who are attacked have been ordered by the BBC but manufactured by an independent production company. Initially, it was scheduled for broadcasting in February, but has not yet been aired in any BBC retail site.

In a statement, the BBC said “was decided to report all aspects of conflict in the Middle East impartially and fairly.”

BBC News has contacted the production companies of basement movies for comment. Its founder Ben de Pir said that the BBC “had failed” earlier this week and that journalists were “stimulated and muted”.

The BBC said it “transfers ownership of basement film filmmaking.”

The BBC News understands that the decision to postpone the documentary was taken on Thursday, after public comments from the DE PEAR at the Sheffield Documentary Festival and another of the film’s directors, journalist Ramita Navi, who appeared in the “Today” program on Radio 4, discussing the war in Gaza.

A different documentary, gas: how to survive in Warzone, was Withdrawn from iplayer earlier this year After the 13-year-old storyteller appears, he is the son of a Hamas employee.

Gaza: Doctors who are attacked – also known as Gaza: Medical Media – it is said that they examine the experiences of Palestinian medics working during the Gaza war.

The movie is directed by Karim Shah, Navy and De Pier, a former editor of Channel 4 News.

In a statement on Friday, the BBC said he had assigned the documentary more than a year ago, but in April he stopped the movie, “deciding that we cannot broadcast the movie while the review in a separate Gaza documentary continues.”

“With the two films coming from independent production companies, both for gas, it was right to wait for any relevant findings – and to apply them into action – before broadcasting the movie.

“However, we wanted to hear the voices of the doctors. Our goal was to find a way to broadcast some of the materials in our news programs, in accordance with our standards of impartiality, before the review was published.

“For a few weeks, the BBC has been working with basements to find a way to tell the stories of these doctors on our platforms.

“Yesterday (Thursday) it became clear that we came to the end of the road with these discussions. We came to the conclusion that the broadcast of this material was at risk of creating a perception of bias that does not meet the high standards that the public properly expects from the BBC.”

The corporation added that, contrary to some reports, the documentary “did not undergo the final BBC write -off processes, adding:” Any movie broadcast will not be a BBC movie. “

He continued: “We want to thank the doctors and associates and regret that we could not tell their stories. The BBC will continue to cover the events in Gaza impartially.”

By speaking at the Sheffield Documentary Festival on Thursday, before the decision was announced, De Pir specifically accused General director Tim Davey of refusing to broadcast the film.

“All decisions for our movie were not made by journalists, they were made by Tim Davey,” he said as he participated in a panel, As reported by broadcast.

“He is just a PR man. Tim Davey makes editorial decisions that, honestly, he is not able to make.”

He added: “The main goal of the BBC is television news and current cases, and if it does not fail, it doesn’t matter what drama he does or plays to reflect. He fails as an institution. And if he fails, then he needs a new management.

“Something has to happen because they make decisions from a defensive point of view, not a journalistic. If you decide on a journalistic basis, you can protect it, but if you do it on PR, you cannot.”

In connection with the war, De Pir claims that the BBC employees are forced to use a language they do not recognize, they do not describe something as it is clear (of fear of impartiality) and is tragic. “

In response to the comments of De Pear, a BBC spokesman said the BBC “completely rejects this characteristic of our coverage”.

“The BBC is constantly producing powerful journalism for this conflict. Along with the breach of news and the ongoing analysis, we have prepared original investigations such as those in allegations of abuse of Palestinian prisoners and the use of Israel Buster Bombs and in -depth documentary films, including the awarding of life and death in Gaza, and Gaza, and Gaza, and Gaza, and Gaza, and Gaza, and Gaza,

Figures with a high profile like actress Susan Sarandon and lead Gary Linecker have I have been blamed for the corporation earlier of censorship over delay.

An open letter, which was also signed by cultural figures such as Dam Harriet Walter, Miriam Margolis, Maxine Peak, Juliet Stevenson and Mike Lee, said: “It’s not editorial caution. It’s political suppression.”

“No news organization should quietly decide behind closed doors whose stories are worth telling,” this continued.

“This important movie must be seen by the public and the courage of its associates is revered.”