Complaint
A viewer complained that an interview with a released Israeli hostage showed pro-Israeli bias. 听The ECU considered whether the output met the standards of due impartiality set out in the 麻豆官网首页入口 Editorial Guidelines. 听
Outcome
This was an interview with a civilian who had been kidnapped and whose husband was still in captivity. 听Audiences would have expected the 麻豆官网首页入口 to question her sensitively on what she had seen and experienced but not necessarily on the wider conflict in the Middle East nor her own personal background.听 The interview was not broadcast in isolation but in the context of extensive coverage of the Gaza conflict in the same programmes and elsewhere on the 麻豆官网首页入口. 听This was sufficient in the ECU鈥檚 view to ensure due impartiality was maintained on the wider political questions raised by her ordeal.
Not Upheld