Mick Hartley

A fitting postscript to that previous “community of the good” post, from the Telegraph. BBC boss criticised over discredited Gaza documentary handed OBE:

A former BBC executive criticised over a now-discredited Gaza documentary has been awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours List.

Charlotte Moore was the corporation’s chief content officer when Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone was broadcast in February. It later emerged that it was narrated by the son of a Hamas official.

She has been recognised for services to public service broadcasting in an honours list that risks accusations it rewards failure.

Others given awards include a police chief who blocked job applications from white candidates and the National Trust chief who ordered a “woke” audit of its properties’ links to the slave trade.

Ms Moore, who held her post from 2020 until she left earlier this year, was one of three senior bosses to bear the brunt of the criticism over the Gaza documentary, after the narrator, who was then 13, was revealed to be the son of a Hamas government minister.

The BBC board said at the time that “significant and damaging” mistakes had been made and removed the documentary from its iPlayer streaming service. It said the corporation had made “unacceptable” mistakes, which had had an impact on its reputation.

Never mind. She may have cemented the BBC’s already rock-bottom reputation for its reporting on Gaza, but it’s what all the “community of the good” people think anyway – so that’s fine.