Complaints

February 12, 2017

Following complaint, BBC Arabic corrects partisan terminology

Readers may recall that on January 2nd the BBC Arabic website published a report on the death of Hil...

June 20, 2016

BBC Trust: ‘it ain’t what we say; it’s what we meant to say that matters’

h/t Dr CL The BBC Trust Editorial Standards Committee’s latest publication includes a section ...

June 19, 2016

BBC Trust rejects appeals on Willcox ‘Jewish hands’ complaints

Eighteen months after the original broadcast, the BBC Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee ha...

May 16, 2016

BBC responds to a complaint about inaccuracy with more inaccuracy

Readers may recall that back in February, listeners to BBC Radio 4’s culture show ‘Front...

March 20, 2016

An upcoming event for UK readers

UK based readers wishing to improve their ability to make effective complaints to the media may be i...

February 17, 2016

BBC Complaints clarifies discrepancies in terminology when reporting terrorism

BBC coverage of the terror attack in Duma last summer and the subsequent investigation has thrown a ...

January 7, 2016

BBC Trust’s ESC rejects complaint about Tim Willcox’s ‘Jewish faces’ remark

A complaint concerning a BBC programme which was flagged up in the CST’s report on Antisemitic...

December 19, 2015

Essay on ‘rationalising terror’ notes BBC reporter’s Paris remark

Readers will no doubt recall the statement made by BBC reporter Tim Willcox whilst interviewing a pa...

December 15, 2015

BBC ECU upholds complaint concerning Iranian threats to Israel

Whilst interviewing the then Israeli minister Danny Danon for the July 14th edition of the BBC World...

December 14, 2015

BBC Complaints conflates opinion with facts

As readers may recall, during an edition of BBC One’s ‘This Week’ broadcast on Nov...