David Gritten

October 13, 2024

BBC News website documentation of weapons in southern Lebanon

As readers may have already noticed, the BBC’s abundant coverage of events in Lebanon during the p...

October 4, 2024

BBC News downplays Hamas-UNRWA symbiosis yet again

On the morning of September 30th a strike on an apartment in a neighbourhood in Beirut received no s...

September 26, 2024

BBC Complaints corrects a factual error – eighteen months later

In March 2023 the BBC News website published a report by Anna Foster and David Gritten titled ‘...

September 24, 2024

Multiple BBC reports promote anonymous unsubstantiated claims

On September 18th – the day after the explosions of Hizballah pagers in Lebanon and Syria R...

September 22, 2024

BBC framing of Hizballah communications devices explosions

The explosions of Hizballah communications devices on September 17th and 18th were the topic of exte...

September 15, 2024

BBC platforming of UNRWA talking points and allegations

On the evening of September 11th the BBC News website published a report about an airstrike on a Ham...

September 13, 2024

BBC coverage of Syria strikes fails to adequately inform

On the morning of September 9th the BBC News website published a report based on claims appearing in...

September 12, 2024

BBC News promotes unverified Hamas supplied casualty toll

Visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page early on the morning of September 10th w...

September 6, 2024

BBC News ‘Gaza hostage deal’ framing

Previously we discussed the BBC News website’s September 1st coverage of the recovery of the bodie...

September 3, 2024

Reviewing BBC presentation of the ‘why?’ behind a counter-terrorism operation

On August 19th the BBC News website published a report by David Gritten about an attempted terror at...