BBC News

June 5, 2014

BBC’s ‘Vatican expert’ misleads on Pope’s speech at Yad Vashem

One of the later items in the BBC’s extensive coverage of the Pope’s recent visit to the...

June 4, 2014

Cursory BBC coverage of PA unity government does disservice to audiences

The BBC News website’s coverage of the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation continued on June 2nd with a...

June 3, 2014

Children’s BBC amplifies the language of terrorist propaganda to 6-12 year-olds

The CBBC (Children’s BBC) news programme ‘Newsround’ is aimed at six to twelve yea...

June 2, 2014

BBC approved terminology meets reality and the result is audience confusion

The BBC News website’s reporting ahead of the formation of the new Palestinian unity governmen...

June 2, 2014

BBC Click reports from Israel

Hats off to the BBC’s technology reporters – and specifically this time the BBC Click team â...

June 1, 2014

100% of missile fire from Gaza Strip in May ignored by BBC

On May 1st a missile fired from the Gaza Strip landed in the Eshkol region of the Western Negev. Fur...

June 1, 2014

Reader complaint prompts correction to BBC portrayal of Israel’s stance on Syria intervention

h/t JD Late last August, when the US president’s ‘red lines’ on chemical weapons u...

May 31, 2014

Omission and inaccuracy on ME terror misleads BBC audiences

May 29th saw the appearance of a filmed report on the BBC News website’s main, Magazine and Mi...

May 29, 2014

Fact check failure: BBC recycles story Reuters got wrong

“Spar: To bandy words about in argument; dispute.” (source) The ‘Features & An...

May 27, 2014

Wall to wall political messaging in BBC coverage of Pope’s visit

Yesterday we took a look at Yolande Knell’s context-free amplification of politically motivate...