Complaints

September 20, 2014

Reader secures correction to BBC News website article

Earlier this month we noted here that a report which appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle...

August 1, 2014

The return of the template BBC response to complaints

We have seen it before. During times of intense BBC coverage of events in Israel, members of the pub...

June 20, 2014

BBC ties itself in knots over antisemitism yet again

Readers may recall that in early April we noted the following antisemitic slur made by guest Alpesh...

June 19, 2014

BBC announces new guidance on online content

h/t MD An interesting post by the BBC’s Director of Editorial Policy and Standards, David Jord...

June 1, 2014

Reader complaint prompts correction to BBC portrayal of Israel’s stance on Syria intervention

h/t JD Late last August, when the US president’s ‘red lines’ on chemical weapons u...

April 19, 2014

The saga of three questions the BBC did not want to answer – part one

• How many complaints were made to the BBC over the last 5 years on a year by year basis? • How ...

March 31, 2014

Exclusive: how a complainant convinced the BBC Trust’s ESC to uphold his appeal

As we have previously noted, the BBC Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee recently upheld an ...

March 30, 2014

The bizarre basis for the BBC’s rejection of an appeal

The BBC Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee findings published on March 25th include details...

March 27, 2014

Two and a half years a BBC complainant

Earlier this month we noted a Times report on the subject of the BBC Trust’s Editorial Standar...

March 18, 2014

BBC omission of Saudi Arabia’s designation of Hizballah corrected after reader complaint

On March 7th the BBC News website published an article titled “Saudi Arabia declares Muslim Br...