BBC

December 28, 2012

BBC bizarre punctuation mystery solved?

We have written previously about the BBC’s sometimes bizarre use of punctuation, including the...

December 27, 2012

Where did Jeremy Bowen learn the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict?

In May 2008 – at the time of Israel’s 60th anniversary celebrations – the BBC’s ...

December 27, 2012

BBC’s UN correspondent misses item about Israel

On December 21st 2012 a session at the United Nations General Assembly dealt with recommended draft ...

December 26, 2012

Opportunity knocks for BBC’s Donnison in Bethlehem

The BBC’s Jon Donnison was to be found in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve and – as may be expecte...

December 26, 2012

BBC’s ‘Hardtalk’ on democracy in Egypt

This episode of the BBC programme ‘Hardtalk‘ in which Zeinab Badawi interviews Coptic Ch...

December 25, 2012

BBC still citing erroneous civilian/combatant casualty ratio

On December 24th 2012 an article was published in the Middle East section of the BBC News website pe...

December 25, 2012

Letter to The Times calls for release of Balen Report

The letter below, from the former Chair of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain & Ireland, re...

December 24, 2012

BBC promotes Avaaz report but stays mum on group’s Syrian ties

On December 21st 2012 a report by BBC world affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge appeared in the Mi...

December 23, 2012

What Jon Donnison did not report about the Hamas rally in Nablus

On December 13th 2012 a rally was held in Schem (Nablus) in the Palestinian Authority-controlled ter...

December 23, 2012

Spot the gratuitous sentence in a BBC report on Syria

A BBC report from December 21st, entitled “Palestinian refugees return to Syrian camp” ...