Contributors’ Affiliations

February 24, 2023

BBC WS radio ignores ‘contributors’ affiliations’ guidelines in Israel protests item

As we all too frequently have cause to note on these pages, the BBC regularly ignores its own editor...

January 15, 2023

BBC’s Bateman promotes lobbyists’ talking points

Late on the evening of January 11th a report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman appeared on...

January 12, 2023

PROMOTED AND QUOTED: THE BBC’S PREFERRED NGO CONTRIBUTORS IN 2022

Nearly a decade ago, in May 2013, we began documenting the BBC’s use of contributions or informati...

December 25, 2022

BBC’s Bateman again promotes claims from political NGOs

One way of recognising BBC promotion of a particular topic – as opposed to straightforward news re...

November 24, 2022

The BBC’s one-sided Masafer Yatta campaigning continues

One way of determining how committed a media outlet is to accurate and impartial coverage of a parti...

November 4, 2022

BBC WS exploits Israel election to promote political NGO’s talking points

Among the November 1st coverage of Israel’s general election on BBC World Service radio, an item a...

September 1, 2022

BBC Jerusalem bureau ‘journavism’ goes to Masafer Yatta

Back in May, BBC World Service radio presented its listeners around the globe with an entirely one-s...

July 24, 2022

BBC fails to identify the organisers of a highlighted campaign

As regular readers are no doubt aware, the BBC’s editorial guidelines on impartiality include a se...

May 10, 2022

BBC’s ‘Newsday’ promotes a one-sided PR narrative

On the morning of May 6th – just hours after the fatal terror attack in Elad – listeners to BBC ...

April 8, 2022

BBC WS uses propagandists to tell ‘the real story’ about the Negev summit – part two

In part one of this post we looked at BBC World Service radio’s use of an inadequately introduced ...