Impartiality

September 3, 2021

Another example of BBC double standards on disputed territories

On August 31st the BBC News website published a report headlined “Cyprus on alert as Syrian oil sl...

August 25, 2021

BBC News promotion of HRW report again erodes claim to impartiality

On August 23rd the BBC News website chose to provide worldwide amplification for a report produced b...

August 9, 2021

BBC Arabic journalists remove posts from Twitter and Facebook

A post by CAMERA Arabic In June, we documented a series of Facebook and Twitter comments by BBC Ara...

August 6, 2021

Reviewing impartiality in BBC coverage of the Sheikh Jarrah case – part two

In part one of this post we discussed the BBC’s use of partisan terminology and its predominant am...

August 4, 2021

Reviewing impartiality in BBC coverage of the Sheikh Jarrah case – part one

Previously we looked at BBC News website’s August 2nd anticipatory framing of a story which had ye...

July 12, 2021

Down the BBC Complaints procedure rabbit hole

As we all too often have cause to note on these pages, the BBC’s editorial guidelines on impartial...

July 11, 2021

BBC Radio 4 misleads with inaccurate portrayals of Israeli citizenship law

The July 6th edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘The World Tonight’ included an item (from 16:57 here) i...

June 28, 2021

Who is BBC World Service radio’s ‘human rights activist’?

As we all too often have cause to note on these pages, BBC coverage of internal Palestinian affairs ...

June 21, 2021

BBC Arabic employees breach corporation’s social media guidance

A post by CAMERA Arabic (All translations, emphases, in-bracket remarks and in-quote links are by CA...

June 15, 2021

Sixteen years of the BBC Middle East editor’s narratives

Every now and again it is worth reminding ourselves of the opinions and approaches of the man who ha...