The BBC will make an on-screen apology to clothing chain Primark after a report found that child labour footage made for Panorama by a Scots journalist was ?more likely than not? faked.
Primark: On The Rack, which was shown in June 2008, investigated whether the firm could make cheap clothing without breaking ethical guidelines and included footage said to show three boys in a Bangalore workshop testing stitching in Primark clothes.
Chairman of the trust?s editorial standards committee Alison Hastings said: ?Great investigative journalism must be based on the highest standards of accuracy, and this programme on Primark failed to meet those standards.
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.?
He added that the firm had to ?persevere and pursue the matter for three years? including four internal BBC investigations before being vindicated.
So why do the journalist do not give accuracy information, knowingly giving wrong information can bankrupt and can lead the company out of business. Diabolical I recon they still think they can get away.
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