Complaints

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...

November 2, 2015

Kevin Connolly tells BBC Radio 4’s ‘Feedback’ complaints rooted in narratives

h/t MD The BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Feedback’ (which, as readers may know, has a ‘ge...

September 11, 2015

BBC responds on use of inappropriate flag picture – and posts another

h/t S Readers no doubt recall that the BBC’s coverage of the football match between Israel and...

August 31, 2015

BBC: it’s not our job to tell audiences what the BDS campaign is about

h/t L A reader who complained to the BBC about inadequacies in its coverage of the BDS campaign in t...

August 30, 2015

The BBC must tell its audiences how it defines antisemitism

h/t BB As was documented here at the time, on July 23rd BBC Radio 4 chose to air a repeat broadcast ...

August 10, 2015

BBC doubles down on its creative translation of ‘Yahud’

Recent weeks have seen two cases in which the BBC chose to inaccurately translate the Arabic word &#...