The media can be so charming

[Debbie]

In Britain, the one station fakes phone-in competitions, while the other fakes the screening of a death.

In the new row, the makers of a documentary by independent broadcaster ITV about an Alzheimer's sufferer admitted that their programme did not, as initially claimed, show the man's actual death.

The programme, Malcolm And Barbara: Love's Farewell, triggered an ethical debate after it was reported that it would be only the second time that an actual death would be screened on British television.

But it has now been confirmed that the scene in question did not actually show Malcolm Pointon's death, which occurred three days later and was not filmed.

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