EXCLUSIVE: A Sky News board member is set to recommend a series of changes to the BBC’s editorial complaints procedures following a huge row over on-air remarks presenter Naga Munchetty made …
“Racism is racism and the BBC is not impartial on the topic,” the director general said in an email to staff.
Banatvala, who has sat on the Sky News board for more than a year and also assesses complaints on behalf of Channel 4, carried out his review after commenting on the Munchetty issue on BBC Radio 4’sin October last year. He said at the time that the BBC got itself into a “messy” situation because it was not clear about the reasons why Munchetty was censured, or why Hall overruled the ECU.
“We’re not very clear about what has actually occurred and I think that goes back to the original [ECU] decision that was published, which basically didn’t have enough reasoning in it. That meant from there onwards, the BBC was constantly on the back foot,” Banatvala said. He also recommended that the ECU take a broader look at the entire history of an audience complaint before making a ruling.
A BBC spokesman said: “We are always looking at how we might improve the transparency and effectiveness of our complaints process and in October we asked Chris Banatvala — a leading expert on regulation with vast experience — to undertake a piece of work to understand what improvements we could make. His work has informed proposed amendments to our complaints framework which we will be consulting on shortly.
The BBC is confident that Banatvala’s work at Sky News does not represent a conflict of interest because he is not making recommendations that relate directly to content and editorial decision making.
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