Chris Banatvala, former head of standards at Ofcom told The Media Show there is “a duty of care” whenever you make a programme dealing with potentially vulnerable people, “whether that’s Richard Gadd or Fiona Harvey”.
“Has she been portrayed in a way that is unfair to her… did she or did she not go to prison?”
He pointed out, for now, the streamer is not governed by Ofcom regulatory codes.
“In traditional broadcasting, there’s a very good set of rules around fairness, what you can and can’t do”.
The Doctor Who writer, Russell T Davies, said the BBC’s editorial compliance processes would have been “much stricter”. Writing in The Times, external, he said “compliance and editorial policy drives us made here but I sleep at night”.
In his evidence to MPs, King said in making the show, Netflix had taken “every reasonable precaution in disguising the real-life identities of the people involved in that story”.
Ms Harvey disputed that when she spoke to Morgan in an interview that has been watched more than 11 million times.
She has since said she was paid £250 by the programme and now wants £1 million.
Morgan told the BBC that “she’s not going to get a million pounds from me, no… there’s no question about that”.
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