BBC World Service radio

March 1, 2020

BBC’s ‘Hardtalk’ promotes half a story from 2014

The failure to provide context to an incident brought up by Sackur prevents audience understanding. ...

February 18, 2020

BBC WS radio jumps on the Gaza comparison bandwagon

'Newshour' chose to highlight one sentence from a six-minute interview....

February 9, 2020

BBC Complaints invokes ‘common parlance in the media’

The BBC will "remind editors" of a PA envoy's "actual title". ...

February 6, 2020

A review of the impartiality of BBC radio coverage of the US ‘Peace to Prosperity’ plan

It is once again abundantly obvious that BBC journalists were intent on establishing a specific narr...

February 6, 2020

BBC WS radio promotes US peace plan commentary from partisan lobbying group

Newshour listeners were told that the US plan is "an act of geo-political arson"....

February 5, 2020

BBC radio interviews same PA representative three times in one day

Tim Franks was not perturbed by the dissonance of a representative of an entity which literally pays...

February 3, 2020

BBC’s ‘Newshour’ serves up ‘rumours and leaks’ with one-sided analysis

BBC World Service radio made no attempt whatsoever to provide listeners with a 'range and depth of a...

January 23, 2020

BBC’s Guerin gratuitously inserts ‘occupation’ into Holocaust remembrance coverage

Another chapter in Orla Guerin's problematic record of reporting on Israel. ...

January 17, 2020

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading....

January 9, 2020

BBC radio passes the microphone to Iranian propaganda

BBC audiences hear unchallenged falsehoods and conspiracy theories from an inadequately presented in...