'Propaganda journalism': UK petition seeks independent probe against BBC series on PM Modi
An online petition in the United Kingdom demanded a probe against the BBC for its documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling it "sinister propaganda journalism".
A day after a London lawmaker referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an online petition in the UK sought an independent probe against the BBC over its documentary on Modi.
The petition sought an independent probe against British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), terming the documentary a “serious breach”. It also called out the BBC for "breaching" its duties as a public broadcaster.
‘Call for an Independent Investigation into the BBC over Modi documentary’ on Change.Org, which “strongly” condemns the BBC for failing to meet the “highest standards of editorial impartiality”, has attracted over 2,500 signatures since it went online on Sunday night, reported news agency PTI.
Condemning the documentary, the petition termed the two-part series a "sinister propaganda journalism that deliberately misinforms its viewers”.
“We strongly condemn the BBC for failing to meet the highest standards of editorial impartiality in its two-part documentary ‘India: The Modi Question’. The timing for airing, some 21 years later, a so-called investigative report that has nothing new in it, but only shoehorns old allegations to fit the producers clearly predetermined conclusions in itself speaks volumes,” the petition reads.
"Inexplicably, it comes at a time when India’s Supreme Court has, after a lengthy investigation and due process, completely absolved Prime Minister Modi from the very same allegations of complicity in the 2002 riots that the BBC now seeks to rake up after more than two decades,” it further reads.
