Post by Teddy Bear on Jun 16, 2011 18:08:18 GMT
The BBC will make an on-screen apology to fashion chain Primark after a report found it was 'more likely than not' that it included faked footage of child labour in an edition of Panorama about the firm.
There are several elements to this story.
First, surely the makers of this documentary KNOW if they used faked footage or not, but instead of owning up to it others have determined that it was 'more likely than not'. In other words the BBC are not admitting their guilt, which they are surely aware of.
Next:
Chairman of the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee Alison Hastings said: 'The BBC's investigative journalism is rightly held in very high regard, and for more than 50 years Panorama has made a very significant contribution to that.
'But great investigative journalism must be based on the highest standards of accuracy, and this programme on Primark failed to meet those standards.
'While it's important to recognise that the programme did find evidence elsewhere that Primark was contravening its own ethical guidelines, there were still serious failings in the making of the programme.
'The Trust would like to apologise on behalf of the BBC to Primark and to the audience at home for this rare lapse in quality.'
It is not a 'lapse in quality', it is a purposeful attempt to denigrate a company by falsifying facts that were presented and deceive the public. As we know full well here, it is also not rare at all, otherwise we couldn't find the amount of bias that we do. How easy for the BBC that gets money without earning it, to try and bring down a company that has to provide a service to get their money, and employs thousands of people to do it.
How dare this Alison Hastings repeat the assertion about Primark 'contravening its own guidelines', when this is precisely what the BBC has been shown to have done. 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone', or 'those that live in glasshouses...'.
I've no doubt that for as long as the BBC is broadcasting they will repeat the lie that 'The BBC's investigative journalism is rightly held in very high regard'. They simply don't listen to the criticism of their output so long as they have suckers who will believe or want to believe it is true.
There is quite about in the article below about the fact that it took Primark 3 years and four internal BBC enquiries before they were vindicated. Yet the BBC will consistently emptily claim that they 'are answerable to their public'. High time they were!
Finally, The BBC said it accepted the ruling and agreed the 45-second sequence should not have been broadcast. It added that 'additional safeguards' had been brought in to help staff involved in 'undercover situations' and 'investigative reporting'.
Additional safeguards??? How does a corrupt, ignorant deceitful corporation from the top down safeguard against corruption, deceit and ignorance? If it were run by moral intelligent human beings there wouldn't be a problem.
There are several elements to this story.
First, surely the makers of this documentary KNOW if they used faked footage or not, but instead of owning up to it others have determined that it was 'more likely than not'. In other words the BBC are not admitting their guilt, which they are surely aware of.
Next:
Chairman of the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee Alison Hastings said: 'The BBC's investigative journalism is rightly held in very high regard, and for more than 50 years Panorama has made a very significant contribution to that.
'But great investigative journalism must be based on the highest standards of accuracy, and this programme on Primark failed to meet those standards.
'While it's important to recognise that the programme did find evidence elsewhere that Primark was contravening its own ethical guidelines, there were still serious failings in the making of the programme.
'The Trust would like to apologise on behalf of the BBC to Primark and to the audience at home for this rare lapse in quality.'
It is not a 'lapse in quality', it is a purposeful attempt to denigrate a company by falsifying facts that were presented and deceive the public. As we know full well here, it is also not rare at all, otherwise we couldn't find the amount of bias that we do. How easy for the BBC that gets money without earning it, to try and bring down a company that has to provide a service to get their money, and employs thousands of people to do it.
How dare this Alison Hastings repeat the assertion about Primark 'contravening its own guidelines', when this is precisely what the BBC has been shown to have done. 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone', or 'those that live in glasshouses...'.
I've no doubt that for as long as the BBC is broadcasting they will repeat the lie that 'The BBC's investigative journalism is rightly held in very high regard'. They simply don't listen to the criticism of their output so long as they have suckers who will believe or want to believe it is true.
There is quite about in the article below about the fact that it took Primark 3 years and four internal BBC enquiries before they were vindicated. Yet the BBC will consistently emptily claim that they 'are answerable to their public'. High time they were!
Finally, The BBC said it accepted the ruling and agreed the 45-second sequence should not have been broadcast. It added that 'additional safeguards' had been brought in to help staff involved in 'undercover situations' and 'investigative reporting'.
Additional safeguards??? How does a corrupt, ignorant deceitful corporation from the top down safeguard against corruption, deceit and ignorance? If it were run by moral intelligent human beings there wouldn't be a problem.
BBC to apologise to Primark over 'faked footage of child labour' in Panorama exposé
The BBC will make an on-screen apology to fashion chain Primark after a report found it was 'more likely than not' that it included faked footage of child labour in an edition of Panorama about the firm.
Primark: On The Rack, which was shown in June 2008, investigated whether the firm could make cheap clothing without breaking ethical guidelines.
It included footage said to show three boys in a Bangalore workshop testing stitching in Primark clothes.
Chairman of the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee Alison Hastings said: 'The BBC's investigative journalism is rightly held in very high regard, and for more than 50 years Panorama has made a very significant contribution to that.
'But great investigative journalism must be based on the highest standards of accuracy, and this programme on Primark failed to meet those standards.
'While it's important to recognise that the programme did find evidence elsewhere that Primark was contravening its own ethical guidelines, there were still serious failings in the making of the programme.
'The Trust would like to apologise on behalf of the BBC to Primark and to the audience at home for this rare lapse in quality.'
The report found: 'Having carefully scrutinised all of the relevant evidence, the committee concluded that, on the balance of probabilities, it was more likely than not that the Bangalore footage was not authentic.'
A spokesman for Primark said the BBC announcement was 'extraordinary'.
He said: 'Millions of people have been deceived by Panorama. Viewers who watched the programme, shoppers who were then fed the lie, sourcing experts who believed the lie, teachers and pupils who viewed the programme in lessons, have all been badly let down.'
The BBC trust said it wanted to apologise for a 'rare lapse in quality'
He added that the firm had to 'persevere and pursue the matter for a period of three years' including four internal BBC investigations before being vindicated.
The statement concluded: 'Panorama can be a fine maker of documentaries and, at its best, it is to be applauded, but the programme carries responsibilities which were disregarded.
'This lapse was compounded by the BBC's complaints process.
'It is now for others to decide what steps should be taken at the BBC. But Primark hopes that no other individual or company is again subjected to such deception and ill-treatment.'
The BBC will make an on-screen apology to Primark for the footage that was likely faked
The apology will be broadcast on BBC One before or after an edition of Panorama at a date yet to be decided and will also be displayed on the front page of the Panorama website for a week.
The committee ordered the BBC not to repeat or sell on the programme and not to show the disputed footage again apart from in coverage of this appeal.
It also asked 'that the BBC Executive considers its position' in connection with a Royal Television Society Award which was given to the programme in 2009 and criticised the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU) which it said had 'placed the burden on Primark to prove its case in the complaint'.
Primark described the apology as extraordinary
Earlier this year, the corporation's complaints procedure came under fire from its former chairman Lord Grade who described it as 'a grisly experience'.
He told the House of Lords Communications Committee it needed an independent ombudsman, adding it had taken 'months and months and months of grind' for him to resolve a complaint.
He said: 'I thought to myself I'm a man that has been inside the BBC, I know how it works, I know the people that are dealing with this thing and I'm having a problem.
'Goodness knows, poor members of the public having to seek redress from the BBC when they don't know how the system works, who to write to by name or anything. It's hopeless, absolutely hopeless and it does a great institution no service at all and I think I would wholeheartedly support an ombudsman today.'
The BBC said it accepted the ruling and agreed the 45-second sequence should not have been broadcast.
It added that 'additional safeguards' had been brought in to help staff involved in 'undercover situations' and 'investigative reporting'.
Its statement concluded: 'These additional safeguards should ensure that the BBC maintains the standards our audiences expect but should also protect our journalists against claims which may be false but which are impossible authoritatively to disprove.
'We note that the Trust supported the central thrust of the programme, which was that there was clear evidence that work was being outsourced from factories in India in contravention of Primark's own ethical trading principles.'
The BBC will make an on-screen apology to fashion chain Primark after a report found it was 'more likely than not' that it included faked footage of child labour in an edition of Panorama about the firm.
Primark: On The Rack, which was shown in June 2008, investigated whether the firm could make cheap clothing without breaking ethical guidelines.
It included footage said to show three boys in a Bangalore workshop testing stitching in Primark clothes.
Chairman of the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee Alison Hastings said: 'The BBC's investigative journalism is rightly held in very high regard, and for more than 50 years Panorama has made a very significant contribution to that.
'But great investigative journalism must be based on the highest standards of accuracy, and this programme on Primark failed to meet those standards.
'While it's important to recognise that the programme did find evidence elsewhere that Primark was contravening its own ethical guidelines, there were still serious failings in the making of the programme.
'The Trust would like to apologise on behalf of the BBC to Primark and to the audience at home for this rare lapse in quality.'
The report found: 'Having carefully scrutinised all of the relevant evidence, the committee concluded that, on the balance of probabilities, it was more likely than not that the Bangalore footage was not authentic.'
A spokesman for Primark said the BBC announcement was 'extraordinary'.
He said: 'Millions of people have been deceived by Panorama. Viewers who watched the programme, shoppers who were then fed the lie, sourcing experts who believed the lie, teachers and pupils who viewed the programme in lessons, have all been badly let down.'
The BBC trust said it wanted to apologise for a 'rare lapse in quality'
He added that the firm had to 'persevere and pursue the matter for a period of three years' including four internal BBC investigations before being vindicated.
The statement concluded: 'Panorama can be a fine maker of documentaries and, at its best, it is to be applauded, but the programme carries responsibilities which were disregarded.
'This lapse was compounded by the BBC's complaints process.
'It is now for others to decide what steps should be taken at the BBC. But Primark hopes that no other individual or company is again subjected to such deception and ill-treatment.'
The BBC will make an on-screen apology to Primark for the footage that was likely faked
The apology will be broadcast on BBC One before or after an edition of Panorama at a date yet to be decided and will also be displayed on the front page of the Panorama website for a week.
The committee ordered the BBC not to repeat or sell on the programme and not to show the disputed footage again apart from in coverage of this appeal.
It also asked 'that the BBC Executive considers its position' in connection with a Royal Television Society Award which was given to the programme in 2009 and criticised the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU) which it said had 'placed the burden on Primark to prove its case in the complaint'.
Primark described the apology as extraordinary
Earlier this year, the corporation's complaints procedure came under fire from its former chairman Lord Grade who described it as 'a grisly experience'.
He told the House of Lords Communications Committee it needed an independent ombudsman, adding it had taken 'months and months and months of grind' for him to resolve a complaint.
He said: 'I thought to myself I'm a man that has been inside the BBC, I know how it works, I know the people that are dealing with this thing and I'm having a problem.
'Goodness knows, poor members of the public having to seek redress from the BBC when they don't know how the system works, who to write to by name or anything. It's hopeless, absolutely hopeless and it does a great institution no service at all and I think I would wholeheartedly support an ombudsman today.'
The BBC said it accepted the ruling and agreed the 45-second sequence should not have been broadcast.
It added that 'additional safeguards' had been brought in to help staff involved in 'undercover situations' and 'investigative reporting'.
Its statement concluded: 'These additional safeguards should ensure that the BBC maintains the standards our audiences expect but should also protect our journalists against claims which may be false but which are impossible authoritatively to disprove.
'We note that the Trust supported the central thrust of the programme, which was that there was clear evidence that work was being outsourced from factories in India in contravention of Primark's own ethical trading principles.'