Jon Donnison

January 24, 2013

Not Right: why did the BBC get the Israeli elections so wrong?

The day after the Israeli elections, with most of the real results in, some furious back-tracking wa...

January 23, 2013

Edited out: the election analysis the BBC scrapped

As described in a previous article, the BBC’s coverage of the 2013 Israeli election campaign u...

January 2, 2013

BBC Radio 4’s ‘News Review of the Year’ resurrects dead baby war porn

h/t: JK On December 30th 2012 BBC Radio 4 broadcast an hour-long programme entitled “News Revi...

December 28, 2012

The BBC’s unhealthy reliance on information from medics in Gaza

A BBC Watch reader recently wrote to us concerning a reply he had received from the BBC to a complai...

December 26, 2012

Opportunity knocks for BBC’s Donnison in Bethlehem

The BBC’s Jon Donnison was to be found in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve and – as may be expecte...

December 23, 2012

What Jon Donnison did not report about the Hamas rally in Nablus

On December 13th 2012 a rally was held in Schem (Nablus) in the Palestinian Authority-controlled ter...

December 21, 2012

A tale of two BBC maps

As readers no doubt noticed at the time, towards the end of Operation ‘Pillar of Cloud’ ...

December 18, 2012

BBC stars in 2012 Dishonest Reporting Awards

‘Tis the season for the annual Dishonest Reporting Awards courtesy of Honest Reporting, and th...

December 6, 2012

BBC takes leading slots in ‘Top 10’

Our friends over at Honest Reporting have compiled a list of the ‘Top 10 Media Fails of the Ga...

December 5, 2012

BBC promotion of the ‘targeting the media’ myth

One of the central themes promoted by some BBC journalists and editors during and after Operation &#...