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Should the BBC have aired Gaza: Medics Under Attack? It's ruled out the completed doc on impartiality grounds - so producer Basement Films is now free to release it as a non-BBC title
Edited on 23rd Jun 2025 11:13am
BBC hands Gaza film back to producers after talks break down
@RobinParker Not enough "balance" apparently. Shows the weakness of the BBC and it's current management which can't show personal accounts of the medics - shockingly cowardly - and saying they can show it somewhere else when they've commissioned it!
Rubia Dar Self Shooting Producer/Director
@RobinParker It's good Basement Films have got their film back and can now show it. BBC has bee so timid over reporting on Gaza and has lost all journalistic integrity.
@RobinParker it appears that C4 have no such concerns regarding impartiality. The film was "thoroughly fact checked' and will air on Wed C4 . Another own goal for BBC.
What partiality standards were applied to other documentaries... The Ukraine conflict for example.
This is an important documentary about the lived experience of front line medics in Gaza - a film the licence paying public deserves to see.
It's yet another example of the BBC bias identified in the shocking, evidence based, report published recently.👇
https://cfmm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CfMM-report-2023-24-ePDF-Edited.pdf.
Staff at the BBC also voiced some very real concerns👇
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/11/2/over-100-staff-accuse-bbc-of-bias-in-its-coverage-of-israels-war-in-gaza
"BBC employees openly revolted about the UK national broadcaster’s Gaza coverage during an all-staff meeting earlier this month, per leaked messages seen by Deadline."
https://deadline.com/2025/06/leaked-bbc-messages-staff-revolt-gaza-1236439886/
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun/28/channel-4-to-show-bbc-commissioned-documentary-gaza-doctors-under-attack?fbclid=IwY2xjawLN9t1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpddWE0nKejMfsIcRqMallaWtNXWjP23HGy0sk6vhK2mLGXQNU5IF4_dBLeO_aem_5zXlMzx0Iffar9DMxUKmZQ