Anna Foster

March 15, 2026

The Language Conflict – How the BBC Minimises Israeli Civilians

The first week of the US/Israel – Iran war has provided a case study in how the BBC uses carefully...

March 11, 2026

A Tale of Two Conflicts – BBC Double Standards on Iran and Gaza

Since it was established early last week that the US and Israel were operating jointly on strikes in...

February 22, 2026

The BBC and the One-Sided Land Dispute

In the last two weeks the BBC has produced a large amount of coverage on new Israeli legislation on ...

January 8, 2026

The BBC Omits Strategic Links Between Iran and Venezuela

In the days since the US military operation on January 3rd in Venezuela, which resulted in the captu...

July 1, 2025

What was the focus of BBC reporting on the Gaza Strip in June 2025?

In early June we documented the BBC’s extensive reporting of a story that had not actually happene...

May 27, 2025

How is the BBC handling its own promotion of ‘14,000 babies’ disinformation?

As we noted last week, on May 20th the BBC News website posted a filmed report titled “Gazan babie...

May 22, 2025

Cross-platform promotion of UN disinformation by the BBC

The May 20th edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme included news bulletins and items rela...

October 9, 2024

Looking at BBC claims of ‘constraints’ on reporting

Previously we discussed part of a statement titled “October 7th: One Year On” which was put out...

September 26, 2024

BBC Complaints corrects a factual error – eighteen months later

In March 2023 the BBC News website published a report by Anna Foster and David Gritten titled ‘...

March 28, 2024

BBC framing of a story that has yet to happen

On February 9th Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office put out a statement: “It is impossible to ach...