“This, in our opinion, was a significant failure to observe its editorial guidelines to report news with due accuracy and due impartiality.”
committed “significant editorial failings” in its reporting of an antisemitic attack on Jewish students travelling on a bus in London.
“The BBC’s reports claimed that an audio recording made during the incident included anti-Muslim slurs – which it later changed to the singular ‘slur’ – which came from inside the bus. Shortly afterwards, it received evidence which disputed this interpretation of the audio.“The BBC failed to promptly acknowledge that the audio was disputed and did not update its online news article to reflect this for almost eight weeks.
The watchdog said the BBC’s “failure to respond promptly and transparently created an impression of defensiveness by the BBC among the Jewish community”.Ofcom said the BBC has “further to go” in learning how to responding to critiques of its reporting. “The BBC apologised at the time for not acting sooner to highlight that the contents of the recording was contested.”
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