James Coomarasamy

March 2, 2023

BBC WS radio tries to explain the ‘Lions’ Den’ – part one

Back in October of last year we observed that the BBC had done very little to inform its audiences...

August 12, 2022

The inevitable Zomlotfest returns to BBC TV and radio

The first clause of the BBC’s public purposes states: “The BBC should provide duly accurate and ...

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...

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...

May 19, 2021

BBC promotes unevidenced claims of Israel ‘trying to silence’ Gaza reporting

Back in August 2014 former Associated Press journalist Matti Friedman wrote this about the relations...

February 12, 2021

BBC World Service listeners get inadequate information on Israeli law

The February 8th afternoon edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ included ...

September 1, 2020

Another superficial report on Corona in Gaza from the BBC’s Yolande Knell

Earlier we looked at how reports on the BBC News website and BBC Radio 4 had framed the discovery of...

July 13, 2020

BBC World Service radio airs speculation presented as ‘analysis’

The BBC has shown significant interest in a number of recent incidents at various sites in Iran and ...

May 1, 2020

BBC World Service radio’s UNRWA puffery highlights nine-month silence

As we have documented in the past, for the last nine months the BBC has studiously avoided the issue...

March 15, 2020

BBC re-promotes the usual Gaza narratives in multiple Coronavirus reports

Reporting by BBC Jerusalem bureau staff on the topic of Coronavirus has so far focused mainly on Bet...