Accuracy

May 19, 2022

A narrative and a libel on BBC WS radio’s Newshour

The lead item (from 00:10 here) in the May 11th afternoon edition of BBC World Service radio’s ‘...

May 17, 2022

BBC Radio 4 and the Al Jazeera narrative – part two

In part one of this post we listed recurrent issues arising from BBC Radio 4 reporting on the shooti...

May 16, 2022

BBC Radio 4 and the Al Jazeera narrative – part one

BBC Radio 4’s initial reporting on the death of Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11th in the ‘Today’ p...

May 11, 2022

BBC World Service TV recycles problematic ‘investigation’

Readers may recall that in September 2020 multi-platform promotion was given to various versions of ...

April 13, 2022

BBC WS radio news fails on accuracy and impartiality

h/t This Ongoing War A BBC World Service radio news bulletin aired on the morning of April 11th and ...

April 5, 2022

BBC ECU upholds complaint about ‘Paris Police 1900’

Readers may recall that last October the BBC amended the synopsis to the first episode of a drama se...

March 30, 2022

BBC East Midlands fails yet again in ‘Palestine Action’ report

For over a year we have been documenting the BBC News website’s reporting on political stunts orga...

February 23, 2022

Revisiting BBC News promotion of unevidenced third party claims

On February 7th the BBC News website published a report headlined “NSO Group: Israel launches inqu...

February 18, 2022

BBC’s Tom Bateman continues to promote his chosen narratives

On the morning of February 16th the BBC News website published an article by the Jerusalem bureau’...

February 1, 2022

BBC North West fact checking fails on Texas synagogue story

On the evening of January 27th a report was published on the BBC News website’s ‘Lancashire’ a...