The BBC says it “regrets” not shooting Bob Vylan Glastonbury Set after controversial songs
The BBC said that it “regrets” not cutting its flow live from the controversial performance of Bob Vylan in Glastonbury after the duo expressed “anti -Semitic feelings”.
The BBC initially declared that it would not make the whole available on demand, but had now gone further, expressing its regret on a scale to withdraw the live flow halfway.
The company noted that it “would now examine our advice on live events so that we can be sure that the teams are clear at the moment when it is acceptable to maintain production in the air”. This came after a spokesperson for OFCOM said that the media regulator had spoken out at the BBC all weekend to “get more urgent information, including the procedures in place to guarantee compliance with its own editorial directives”.
Vylan, a punk duet, chanted “death at the IDF” and “from the river to the sea, Palestine must be, will be, free”, while complaining to work for an “F *** Ing Zionist”.
A press release said: “The BBC respects freedom of expression but is firmly written against incentive to violence. The anti -Semitic feelings expressed by Bob Vylan were completely unacceptable and do not take place on our waves. We welcome the condemnation by Glastonbury of performance.”
The BBC continued by saying that “the team was dealing with a live situation, but with hindsight, we should have drawn the flow during the performance”, adding: “We regret that this did not happen.”
The BBC commented after having pulled the anger of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the Secretary of Culture Lisa Nandy, the media regulator ofcom and the former head of the BBC, Danny Cohen.
Starmer had called on the BBC to “explain how these scenes became broadcast”, while Nandy said that she had spoken urgently with the director general of the BBC Tim Davie on this subject.
Part of the slowness of the BBC to deal with Bob Vylan was due to a laser concentration on a different act, the ball joint.
The Irish hip-hop trio, which played shortly after Bob Vylan on the same scene, was not shown live on the fears of hatred speeches, but it was Bob Vylan who ended up provoking the most controversy. Some even called the BBC patterns to continue the Vylan’s remarks.
