Impartiality

October 31, 2023

BBC News portrays Dagestan pogrom mob as ‘anti-Israel protesters’

This is a Tweet sent by the BBC’s long-time Russia editor the day after an incident at an airport ...

October 30, 2023

Reviewing BBC Verify reporting on the Salah al Din road explosion

Previously we have discussed reporting by the BBC’s relatively new fact-checking brand BBC Verify ...

October 29, 2023

Reviewing BBC Verify reporting on the al Ahli hospital incident

Given that BBC coverage of the explosion at al Ahli hospital in the Gaza Strip on the evening of Oct...

October 19, 2023

Why BBC reporting on the Al Ahli hospital incident should not surprise

On the evening of October 17th the BBC was quick to tell its worldwide audiences about an “Israeli...

July 6, 2023

BBC News apologises for ‘the Israeli forces are happy to kill children’ claim

On the evening of July 4th the BBC News TV station aired an interview with former Israeli prime mini...

April 18, 2023

More uncritical BBC amplification of church leaders’ claims

Last week we noted that an April 12th report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell concernin...

January 12, 2023

PROMOTED AND QUOTED: THE BBC’S PREFERRED NGO CONTRIBUTORS IN 2022

Nearly a decade ago, in May 2013, we began documenting the BBC’s use of contributions or informati...

December 9, 2022

BBC’s Bateman again whitewashes Palestinian violence

At around 4 p.m. on Friday, December 2nd, an incident took place in the town of Huwara in Area B. â€...

December 6, 2022

BBC News again gives context-free promotion to NGO campaigning

On December 2nd the BBC News website published a report by David Gritten headlined ‘Israel to depo...

November 13, 2022

BBC rejects complaint about framing of IDF investigation

Readers may recall that in a report published on the BBC News website on October 1st (discussed here...