A filmed report for BBC television news by the BBC’s Middle East business reporter Jonathan Frewin from September 21st was also posted on the BBC News website’s Middle East and Business pages and still appears on the former five days later.
Here is a screenshot from another report by Frewin which appeared on August 24th – spot the similarity?
Not only footage is being recycled; the two reports include interviews with the same economist and the same unsourced predictions of population growth rate in the ultra-orthodox sector in Israel.
Are BBC audiences really in need of two reports on this internal Israeli issue in less than a month?