December, 2015

December 8, 2015

Reviewing BBC compliance with PLO media guidance

Early in November the PLO’s ‘Negotiations Affairs Department’ – headed by freque...

December 7, 2015

Another BBC online content management fail

As was noted in BBC Watch’s submission to the DCMS charter review consultation, the fact that ...

December 7, 2015

No, we don’t need to ‘talk to ISIS’ – Michael J. Totten responds to Guardian op-ed

History has proven over and over again that fighting can provide an answer all by itself. Not always...

December 7, 2015

BBC News headline prioritises terrorist deaths

On December 4th the BBC News website’s Middle East page published its first report since the b...

December 6, 2015

Happy Hanukkah!

Wishing all our readers celebrating the Festival of Lights a very happy holiday.  ...

December 6, 2015

Guardian casts Jewish billionaire as ‘invisible hand’ controlling GOP politics

Most troubling of course is the decision - presumably by sub-editors - to evoke such historically to...

December 6, 2015

BBC avoidance of the word terror criticized by MPs – again

h/t M In the wake of the Paris attacks, BBC policy regarding the use of the word terror in its repor...

December 5, 2015

BBC WS passes up opportunity to tell audiences about Hamas media censorship

A year ago, former AP journalist Matti Friedman wrote an article about Western media coverage of the...

December 4, 2015

A Paris experiment with a BBC-style headline

Via the Algemeiner, we learn of an experiment recently conducted by an Israeli journalist. “An...

December 4, 2015

Times of London adds new twist on how #Israel ruins Christmas in Bethlehem

It seems that every year around this time, the British media resurrects the desired Palestinian narr...