Freedom of the press

May 20, 2025

BBC ignores Hamas intimidation of Gaza journalists

In May 2023 the BBC News website managed to produce an article about a report put out by the Committ...

May 22, 2020

Weekend long read

1) The Washington Institute has published a comprehensive study of the Lebanese NGO ‘Green Without...

March 16, 2020

A UN human rights story the BBC reported and the one it ignored

On March 11th the BBC News website published a report on its ‘Middle East’ page about a statemen...

September 2, 2019

How did BBC News report rare criticism of the PA from the UN?

The BBC tells audiences that "Israel says" that the PA spreads incitement. ...

July 16, 2019

The BBC and media freedom – theory and practice

On Thursday - a BBC hub at a conference on media freedom. On Saturday, acquiescence to the demands o...

February 15, 2019

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading. ...

March 6, 2018

BBC ignores PA call to blacklist and punish Arab journalists

Not for the first time, condemnation of Arab journalists visiting Israel goes unreported by the BBC....

January 24, 2018

BBC News ignores a media freedom story from Lebanon

A journalist sentenced to imprisonment gets no BBC coverage. ...

November 14, 2016

BBC News ignores a story about press freedom

h/t Point of No Return Given the BBC’s self-evident interest in freedom of the press and its t...

May 26, 2016

A media story the BBC ignored surfaces again

Back in 2013 we noted the BBC’s silence concerning restrictions on foreign journalists introdu...