Thread by @nicolelampert

BREAKING: The BBC.
Fresh from the self flagellating report into Greg Wallace, the BBC said it had breached its own editorial guidelines by using the son of a Hamas official as the narrator for a documentary on Gaza.

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While it said it had found no undue influence from the boy - the son of a Hamas official - from his parents - it had paid his sister nearly £800 of our money.

Three people at the production company knew his dad was. The question is why didn’t the BBC know? Did they ask enough times? There are several executives in the firing line

The BBC also said that it should not have used a child as a narrator, especially one who used words from a script as if they were his own words.

And please let’s not forget the many different BBC staff members who demanded the video was reinstated even though it was clear guidelines had been breached.

The BBC has apparently had this report for some weeks and it has been going backwards and forwards over language used. This is why the BBC should not have been allowed to mark its own homework.

Many are already describing this report - that has taken months to come out - to me as a ‘whitewash’ and say that the BBC should not have been allowed to mark its own homework.

Meanwhile the corporation is saying it may even rerelease a version of the documentary on the iPlayer.
This to me hints at the huge internal divisions going on at the BBC.

When the scandal was first uncovered by @mishtal, BBC chairman Samir Shah described it as a ‘dagger to the heart’ of BBC impartiality.

@mishtal Tim Davie will be in front of a Parliamentary Committee tomorrow who will demand answers about the barrage of failings we have recently seen from the corporation.