BBC World Service radio

October 13, 2021

BBC publishes BBC World Service performance review

Last week the BBC published a five-year review of one of its own departments: the BBC World Service....

October 11, 2021

BBC WS radio’s ‘Newsday’ promotes inaccuracies in a no news story

Listeners to one of the October 7th editions of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newsday’ ...

September 14, 2021

BBC editorial guidelines on contributors’ affiliations ignored yet again

Previously we discussed a September 7th written report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell...

September 13, 2021

BBC’s Bateman avoids the word terror in report on escaped prisoners

The September 6th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ included an item (...

August 31, 2021

More superficial BBC reporting on crime in Israeli Arab sector

Earlier this month we discussed multi-platform audio and written reports on the subject of crime in ...

August 24, 2021

BBC’s Bateman shoehorns Israel into reports on Palestinian vaccinations

On August 19th the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman produced two reports based on the topic of a...

August 15, 2021

BBC’s Knell opts for the easy narrative in reports on Arab crime

In recent days BBC audiences have seen cross-platform promotion of content produced by the Jerusalem...

August 12, 2021

More of the same in BBC reports from Silwan

Readers may recall that in late June, BBC World Service radio aired a completely one-sided and conte...

August 11, 2021

BBC adoption of the Hamas narrative on the May conflict

Even before Hamas fired seven missiles at Israel’s capital city at 6 p.m. on May 10th triggering ...

August 10, 2021

Rocket attacks on Israel get blinkered coverage on BBC WS radio’s ‘Newshour’

Earlier we noted that the BBC News website had not published any reporting whatsoever on the two sep...