A “dagger to the heart of the BBC claim to be impartial and to be trustworthy.” That was what Samir Shah, the BBC chair, told a British parliamentary committee on 4 March, describing the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone . But he wasn’t talking about its cancellation by the once venerable media institution. Shah made his negative judgment of the film before he asked the BBC’s Peter Johnston to report on whether it was or was not in breach of BBC guidelines. This report duly found