Impartiality

June 30, 2022

BBC’s ‘Woman’s Hour’ jumps on the Abu Akleh narrative bandwagon

If there is one thing that has been particularly striking about the last seven weeks of copious medi...

June 26, 2022

OFCOM report criticises BBC impartiality and complaints handling

Readers may recall that last year OFCOM conducted a public consultation on the topic of its regulati...

June 17, 2022

BBC framing of US president’s upcoming ME visit

On the evening of June 14th BBC audiences were presented with reports about the announcement of a vi...

June 9, 2022

BBC’s Bateman again omits context from a Gaza fishing story

On the evening of Saturday, June 4th the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman Quote Tweeted an item ...

May 19, 2022

A narrative and a libel on BBC WS radio’s Newshour

The lead item (from 00:10 here) in the May 11th afternoon edition of BBC World Service radio’s ‘...

May 17, 2022

BBC Radio 4 and the Al Jazeera narrative – part two

In part one of this post we listed recurrent issues arising from BBC Radio 4 reporting on the shooti...

May 16, 2022

BBC Radio 4 and the Al Jazeera narrative – part one

BBC Radio 4’s initial reporting on the death of Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11th in the ‘Today’ p...

May 11, 2022

BBC World Service TV recycles problematic ‘investigation’

Readers may recall that in September 2020 multi-platform promotion was given to various versions of ...

May 2, 2022

BBC Radio Wales replies to request for clarifications

Readers may recall that last month CAMERA UK wrote to BBC Radio Wales to request clarifications rela...

April 13, 2022

BBC WS radio news fails on accuracy and impartiality

h/t This Ongoing War A BBC World Service radio news bulletin aired on the morning of April 11th and ...