Can BBC learn from Gaza documentary controversy?

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The BBC breached its ain editorial rules erstwhile it didn't explicate that a 13-year-old, utilized to narrate a documentary astir Gaza was, successful fact, the lad of a Hamas official.

A reappraisal has recovered that the autarkic accumulation company, Hoyo Films, bears astir of the work for what happened - but that BBC bosses should person had much oversight of the film.

The corp says it is taking enactment but, truthful far, cipher has mislaid their job. However, it is creating a caller absorption relation called 'Director of News Documentaries' arsenic a effect of the review.

Niall Paterson speaks to analogous Katie Spencer astir the BBC's effect - and erstwhile civilization caput John Whittingdale tells the podcast that he's acrophobic the corp doesn't look to larn from its mistakes.