David Gritten

January 10, 2025

BBC ‘balance’ in coverage of a fatal terror attack on Route 55

On January 6th the BBC News website published a report about a terror attack on Route 55 earlier in ...

January 5, 2025

BBC continues to prioritise Gaza hospitals narrative over news

Previously we have discussed written and filmed BBC reports on the topic of a counter-terrorism oper...

December 29, 2024

Priorities in BBC coverage of Israeli strikes on Houthi targets

On the afternoon of December 26th the BBC News website published reports concerning Israeli attacks ...

December 24, 2024

Omission and false equivalence in BBC report on terror attack

Early on the afternoon of December 12th, the BBC News website published an article about a terror at...

December 16, 2024

Selective BBC News website reporting from the Gaza Strip

While the focus of BBC Middle East coverage has shifted to Syria in the past week or so, audiences a...

December 10, 2024

BBC News continues to ignore its own guidelines on ‘material from third parties’

On the evening of December 4th the BBC News website published a report by David Gritten headlined â€...

November 26, 2024

Context lacking in BBC report about strikes in Syria

Given the BBC’s long documented habit of basing news reports on unverified claims made by a news a...

November 6, 2024

More BBC promotion of a selective narrative on incidents involving UNIFIL

Last month we documented the BBC News website’s promotion of a narrative concerning supposed attac...

October 30, 2024

Repeated BBC promotion of a narrative based on ‘suspicion’ and ‘belief’

On October 6th the IDF launched a new operation in the Jabaliya district of the northern Gaza Strip,...

October 25, 2024

BBC’s Guerin collaborates with a pointless PR trip

On the evening of October 21st the IDF Spokesman released information concerning the location of Hiz...