BBC Radio 4

April 4, 2013

New BBC DG coy on subject of licence fee

The latest Director General of the BBC, Lord Tony Hall, began his new position this week with an e-m...

March 29, 2013

BBC corrects webpage of 'Gaza Surf Club' report

Readers may remember that last November the BBC broadcast what it categorised as a documentary about...

March 21, 2013

BBC glosses over terrorism yet again in Donnison 'human interest' puff piece

The timing of the editorial decision taken by the BBC to heavily promote Jon Donnison’s latest...

March 19, 2013

BBC's Kevin Connolly tries wit, promotes jaded memes

The BBC programme ‘From our own Correspondent’ – broadcast on Radio 4 and the BBC Worl...

March 17, 2013

Update on the BBC's Omar Masharawi story

A member of the public has informed BBC Watch that he heard a correction made on BBC radio on March ...

March 12, 2013

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 ...

March 11, 2013

A reminder of the chronology of the BBC's Omar Masharawi story

As media outlets return to work after the weekend, the news (reported here last week) that a recent ...

February 28, 2013

BBC’s Donnison distorts reasons for limited entry from Gaza to Israel

On February 21st 2013 the BBC published two versions of the same report by Jon Donnison about Hebrew...

February 19, 2013

“Significant strands of thought” at the BBC

As we have noted here before, Abdel Bari Atwan – the Gaza-born editor of the London-based Arab...

January 28, 2013

Kevin Connolly tweaks the Israeli political map

Apparently still unable to let go of the subject of the Israeli elections, the BBC featured another ...