FBC admitted it worked for M'sian gov't but Najib mum about FBC claims!

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.

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" and 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 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 and BBC was quoted as saying, "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."

The broadcast of programmes produced by FBC may be against the BBC's guidelines on conflict of interest.

The BBC's guidelines on conflict of interest state: "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."

Read more @ The Independent.

Najib mum about FBC Media allegations

By Shannon Teoh

August 19, 2011