BBC appoints Jon Donnison as 'Shin Gimmel' of Masharawi story
In Hebrew, the expression ‘the Shin Gimmel syndrome’ is used to describe a situation in which the public blame for an operational failure is…
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‘Hardtalk’ presenter gets reality check from Khaled Masha’al
On February 7th and 8th 2013, BBC Two and BBC News broadcast an edition of the flagship interview show ‘Hardtalk‘ from Doha with Khaled Masha’al…
A BBC template response to complaints
On November 7th 2012 an edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme featured a conversation between the presenter and the BBC’s World Affairs Editor,…
Examining another BBC theme from Operation ‘Pillar of Cloud’
One of the main themes created by the BBC during Operation ‘Pillar of Cloud’ – and still being promoted long after it – is…
BBC promotes same inaccuracy for a third time
The BBC News website’s Middle East page is currently featuring a section dedicated to what it terms the ‘Arab uprisings’. The lower ‘Special Reports’…
Along a BBC road to Damascus
Something rather odd appears to have happened to the BBC’s intrepid Middle East Editor somewhere along the road to Damascus. Immediately upon his entry…
The strange story of a complaint to the BBC
Readers no doubt remember the report carried here at BBC Watch about an edition of the BBC Radio 5 programme ‘5 live Drive’ from November…
Examining the BBC’s portrayal of Operation ‘Pillar of Cloud’ as Israeli electioneering
One of the recurrent themes adopted across the board by the BBC both before and during Operation ‘Pillar of Cloud’ was that the recent…
BBC report on Ashkelon: 80% of footage from elsewhere
This looks promising at first sight: a two minutes and 27 seconds BBC News report by Jeremy Bowen entitled “Israeli-Gaza conflict: Ashkelon bears brunt…
BBC Jerusalem Bureau leads the charge in false accusations of “targeting journalists”
Over the past five days since Operation ‘Pillar of Cloud’ began, the BBC has – perhaps inadvertently – done an excellent job of documenting…