Not reported in our media regarding BBC global apology

BBC tellurian reparation for using headlines paid by Malaysia

Sat 2012-Feb-11 @ MYT 17:34:37 pm

Sarawak Reportexposed FBC as Malaysia's PR fixers

from The Independent
The BBC will apologize today to a worldwide television headlines assembly for a headlines fixing scandal, unprotected by The Independent, in that it broadcast documentaries done by London TV association FBC Media (UK) that was earning millions of pounds from PR clients that it featured in a programming.

The reparation over BBC World News to be seen "from Kuala Lumpur to Khartoum as well as Bangkok to Buenos Aires" will be radio programme during 4 opposite times in order to reach audiences in opposite time zones, a Independent reported. The BBC will apologize for violation "rules directed during safeguarding a paper integrity".

The BBC pronounced in Nov there were fifteen breaches of paper guidelines, 8 of them in programmes about Malaysia.

Last year a Independent unprotected FBC Media (UK) who granted programmes to a BBC for nominal fees of as small as 1 . Eight programmes about Malaysia were done for a BBC while FBC unsuccessful to acknowledgement it was paid 17m by a Malaysian supervision for "global vital communications". The programmes enclosed positive coverage of Malaysia's palm oil industry, that has been held indicted of deforestation as well as detriment of native lands.

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John Defterios reporting for CNN upon Kazakhstan in 2010. The nation was a customer of FBC Media

The Independent revealed that FBC, run by a former Financial Times journalist Alan Friedman as well as CNN presenter John Defterios, done paper programmes for blurb operation broadcaster CNBC featuring FBC clients upon a FBC-made show World Business. FBC clients enclosed a governments of Greece as well as Kazakhstan as well as companies like Microsoft.

FBC additionally attempted to suggest in a promotional novel it had "cultivated" pass opinion formers, such as economist Jeffrey Sachs, as "ambassadors". Sachs totally rejected a claim, a Independent said.

The BBC additionally used FBC to have a documentary about a spring overthrow in Egypt but knowing a organisation was paid to do PR work for a regime of former tyrant Hosni Mubarak.

The BBC Trust's Editorial Standards Committee carried out an review in to BBC World News that reported

The certitude additionally identified alternative breaches of manners upon sponsorship in programmes shown by BBC World News, that is a blurb entity as well as carries advertising. In a apology, a BBC will say: "A tiny array of programmes broadcast upon BBC World News in between Feb 2009 as well as Jul 2011 pennyless BBC manners directed during safeguarding a paper integrity. These manners ensu! re that programmes have been free, as well as have been seen to be free, from blurb or alternative outside pressures."

Making a approach anxiety to a FBC documentaries, it will say: "In a box of 8 alternative programmes, all of that featured Malaysia, you found that a production association that done a programmes appeared to have a monetary attribute with a Malaysian government. This meant there was a potential conflict of interest, yet a BBC was not aware of it when a pro! grammes were broadcast."

It concludes: "Editorial firmness is a highest priority for BBC World News, that is why you apologize for these breaches of a normal standards."

When The Independent published a investigations in to FBC a organisation pronounced it had kept despotic groups in between a paper as well as PR operations. FBC sealed a London offices as well as went in to administration department in October. Broadcasting regulator Ofcom is questioning FBC.

BAD PRACTICE: THE STORIES

Malaysia

Since 2009 FBC has done during least 4 BBC documentaries dealing with Malaysia as well as argumentative issues such as t! he equate ry's palm-oil industry as well as a treatment of rainforests as well as inland people. The association has received millions of pounds in payments from a supervision of Malaysia for a "global vital communications campaign".

Hosni Mubarak

As Egypt was in a throes of a revolution, a BBC commissioned FBC to have a documentary upon a country. But a organisation had a blurb attribute to foster Egypt as "liberal as well as open". The programme, Third Eye: Egypt, warned of a hazard of takeover by Islamic fundamentalists.

Mark Thompson

The BBC director general has systematic an end to a use of appropriation headlines programmes for "low or nominal cost" after a BBC certified fifteen breaches of a paper guidelines as well as buying documentaries for "nominal" fees as small as 1 from a association that was operative to foster unfamiliar governments.

Another blow to Malaysia from BBC apology

Sat 2012-Feb-11 @ MYT 19:30:06 pm

Malaysia's picture is taking a beating from theBBC's tellurian apologysays A Kadir Jasin, former arch editor of New Straits Times Press. He questioned whether a supervision had been correct to spend taxpayers' income upon expensive unfamiliar consultants. The BBC apologised for using 8 programmes produced by UK-based broadside consultants FBC Media that was operative for a Malaysian government.

Besides FBC Media, a Malaysian supervision has previously certified using APCO International, one of a largest lobbying firms in a US, with a contract value RM27mil for image-building work.

KADIR QUESTIONS NEED FOR EXPENSIVE OUTSIDERS

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That a BBC had been duped in to airing a programmes, is a problem. The British broadcaster is paying a price for a oversight.

What should concern us is that taxpayers' income paid to FBC Media. Its unsuited control has caused a nation shame. Instead of benefiting from FBC costly handiwork, Malaysia's picture has instead been further damaged.

The question is: How could a supervision (and a agencies) have done such a inapplicable designation when you know that teams upon teams of "high-powered" media professionals have been employed by Putrajaya given Prime Minister Mohd Najib took over in 2009?

Did they not know who or what FBC Media is? To have their "global vital communications" executive caught red-handed as well as with a pants down, does not verbalise well of a government's media teams as well as personalities.

Perhaps this is a complaint as well as outcome of! being t oo contingent upon outside advisers as well as consultants, as well as not being hands-on enough.
Malaysia's Image Tarnished In BBC's Apology

In Novem! ber, law apportion Nazri Aziz shielded FBC Media. He told Parliament a supervision paid a association 20 million euros (about RM90mil) from 2007 to 2000 to correct a country's picture as well as pronounced horse opera leaders had given become more receptive of Najib Tun Razak. Nazri indicted opposition politicians of adverse a country. "If they do not bad mouth a supervision by stuff oneself lies to a international media, you do not have to pay any income to correct a image," he said.

Nazri's explanation ignored a fact that Najib's picture complaint was because he was then related to a Altantuya Shaariibuu murder, as well as allegations done that he had an event with a woman, a translater from Mongolia who helped a Najib associate, Razak Baginda, in negotiations for Malaysia's squeeze of dual French-made submarines. Razak's organisation was reported to have been paid RM250mil in commissions.

Nazri additionally pronounced FBC Media did not dedicate any rapist offence, even yet they were being investigated for ethics violations by broadcasters. Nazri:Govt paid FBC Media to correct picture abroad(Star Online)Wes t warmer towards Najib(Free Malaysia Today)

The Sarawak Report web site, that has carried a minute array of reports upon FBC Media's involvement in Malaysia's image-building, has pronounced a association additionally worked to urge a picture of Sarawak arch apportion Taib Mahmud, as well as had intent a Conservative politician as a spokesman for Sime Darby, that it described as an FBC client.

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