Stesen penyiaran antarabangsa BBC mengakui bahawa ia telah menyiarkan rancangan yang diterbit oleh sebuah syarikat perhubungan awam yang diupah oleh kerajaan Malaysia kepada jutaan penonton di seluruh dunia.
Walau bagaimanapun semua rancangan yang dibekalkan oleh syarikat perhubungan awam yang berpangkalan di London itu, FBC Media Ltd telah digantung. Sejak 2009, syarikat itu telah menerbitkan sekurang-kurangnya empat dokumentari mengenai Malaysia.
Menurut akhbar The Independent, BBC dalam satu kenyataan berkata bahawa "FBC telah mengaku kepada BBC bahawa ia bekerja untuk kerajaan Malaysia".
"Maklumat itu tidak didedahkan kepada BBC seperti sepatutnya apabila BBC memberikan kontrak kepada FBC bagi membeklakan program atau rancangan kepadanya. Berikutan perkembangan ini, BBC telah membuat keputusan untuk tidak lagi menyiarkan rancangan daripada FBC sementara ia mengkaji semula hubungan dengan syarikat itu," kata BBC dipetik akhbar itu.
The Independent juga sedang menjalankan siasatan sama ada mana-mana bahan yang dibekalkan oleh FBC itu melanggar garis panduan BBC berhubung laporan tidak berat sebelah.
International broadcaster BBC has admitted that it has aired to millions of people worldwide, programmes made by a public relations company hired by the Malaysian government. It has suspended all programming from the London-based public relations company, FBC Media Ltd, which since 2009 has made at least four documentaries dealing with Malaysia.
According to an investigative report by Britain's The Independent newspaper, the BBC said in a statement that "FBC has now admitted to the BBC that it has worked for the Malaysian government".
"That information was not disclosed to the BBC as we believe it should have been when the BBC contracted programming from FBC. Given this, the BBC has decided to transmit no more programming from FBC while it reviews its relationship with the company," BBC was quoted as saying.
According to the daily, the BBC is conducting an investigation into whether any of the FBC material it broadcast was in breach of BBC guidelines on impartiality. The broadcast of programmes produced by FBC may be against the BBC's guidelines on conflict of interest which states: 'Independent producers should not have inappropriate outside interests which could undermine the integrity and impartiality of the programmes and content they produce for the BBC.'
It claimed that FBC was paid millions of ringgit by BN politicians to glam up their image overseas. This was verified by the entries in the government's Supplementary Budget 2010 which showed that FBC was allocated RM28.35 million for work on a 'Global Strategic Communications Campaign' ordered in 2009(above). The company had received RM29.34 million the previous year.
Malaysiakini
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