Justin Webb

December 2, 2024

BBC international editor vanishes thousands of rocket attacks

The announcement of a ceasefire after nearly 14 months of war between Israel and Hizballah was natur...

December 20, 2023

BBC promotes Gaza church allegations in five items of content

On December 16th the BBC News website published a report by Alys Davies which, after several amendme...

January 21, 2022

BBC’s ‘Today’ misleads on Texas synagogue hostages escape

A report by Ed Thomas concerning the Texas synagogue hostage incident that was aired on the January ...

January 20, 2022

BBC unnecessarily qualifies Biden reference to rising antisemitism

The January 16th evening edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ included an...

December 13, 2021

BBC R4 promotes speculation on ‘plans to bomb Iran’

Listeners to the December 10th edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme heard an item (from ...

November 4, 2021

More tendentious reporting from the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Knell

The fact that BBC correspondents sometimes produce versions of the same report for different platfor...

June 4, 2021

EXAMINING EARLY BBC RADIO 4 FRAMING OF THE MAY 10 HOSTILITIES – PART TWO

In part one of this post we looked at points arising from the May 11th edition of BBC Radio 4’s â€...

June 3, 2021

Examining early BBC Radio 4 framing of the May 10 hostilities – part one

Previously we looked at points arising from the first hours of BBC Radio 4 coverage of the May 10th ...

May 3, 2021

A Review: ‘Jews Don’t Count’ by David Baddiel

At 123 pages, David Baddiel’s “Jews Don’t Count” is more like a very long es...

October 17, 2019

BBC Complaints makes it up as it goes along

The BBC responded to a complaint by misquoting its own material....