Impartiality

October 1, 2020

BBC re-promotion of a one-sided programme from July

On September 25th the BBC World Service radio Twitter account posted a link to an audio report: The ...

September 24, 2020

BBC Arabic’s FinCEN ‘investigation’ amplifies a well-worn political narrative

On September 21st the BBC One programme ‘Panorama’ aired an edition titled ‘Banking Secrets of...

September 21, 2020

BBC World Service radio coverage of the Bahrain-Israel agreement

The announcement of normalisation of relations between Israel and Bahrain on September 11th prompted...

September 17, 2020

Jeremy Bowen’s recommended reading on the Abraham Accords

On September 15th the BBC News website published an article on its ‘Middle East’ page in which M...

September 14, 2020

BBC correspondent promotes anonymous view of Israel-Bahrain agreement

On September 11th the BBC News website published a report currently titled ‘Trump announces ‘...

August 26, 2020

BBC’s Newshour presents disinformation and lies as ‘context’ to balloon attacks

Earlier this month we noted that the BBC was ignoring the renewal of attacks from the Gaza Strip u...

July 16, 2020

A BBC WS radio history programme’s selective history

The July 13th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Witness History’ was titled “T...

July 10, 2020

Reviewing the impartiality of BBC website coverage of potential application of civil law to parts of Area C

Previously we examined the impartiality of BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service radio coverage of the p...

July 9, 2020

Reviewing the impartiality of BBC radio coverage of potential application of civil law to parts of Area C

The BBC’s editorial guidelines on impartiality state: “Due impartiality usually involves more ...

July 8, 2020

BBC radio backtracks on non-starter story it promoted for weeks

Previously we discussed a report by BBC Jerusalem bureau correspondent Yolande Knell which appeared ...