Frank Gardner

September 3, 2020

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – AUGUST 2020

Throughout the month of August 2020, seventeen written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or t...

August 14, 2020

Three BBC articles about ammonium nitrate ignore Hizballah’s record

BBC News website coverage of the explosion in Beirut last week has included the following reports: A...

January 22, 2020

BBC mixed messaging on Iranian support for the Houthis persists

Frequently recycled messaging from a 2016 backgrounder conflicts with the BBC's public purposes. ...

October 16, 2019

BBC portrayal of attacks on synagogues differs according to location

The BBC had no problem describing a shooting attack at a synagogue as terrorism when it happened in ...

December 12, 2017

The BBC, violence and promotion of linkage – part two

The BBC claims to have found the 'reason' for a 'boost' to ISIS terrorists. ...

October 27, 2014

BBC playing wingman for Qatar’s damage control in the UK?

The lead article on the BBC News website’s Middle East page on October 27th (also appearing on...

July 30, 2014

What word is missing from BBC reporting on Gaza?

If we take a ‘zoom out’ look at BBC reporting since July 8th on the current hostilities ...

July 24, 2014

BBC TV news airs claim that Gazans are being deliberately starved to death by Israel

BBC audiences might very reasonably expect that studio-produced backgrounders would be capable of me...

June 29, 2014

BBC erases Gaza Strip Salafist-Jihadists from its map

An article by the BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner, which appeared in the ‘Fea...

July 1, 2013

BBC schmoozes Qatar

Courtesy of News Sniffer we learn of a change to the headline of an article appearing on the BBC New...