Language when Reporting Terrorism

April 16, 2026

When BBC ‘due impartiality’ becomes absurd

One of the topics we repeatedly have had cause to address over the years is the BBC’s use of langu...

February 27, 2026

Comparing the BBC and Al Jazeera style guides

The Washington Free Beacon recently published a report by Jon Levine highlighting entries in the sty...

December 28, 2025

Omission and misinformation in BBC report on terror attack

On the afternoon of December 26th the BBC News website published a report headlined “Two killed in...

November 30, 2025

Omissions in BBC report on strike in Beirut

On November 23rd, some three hours after news broke concerning a strike in Beirut’s Dahiya suburb ...

September 28, 2025

BBC News promotes a politically motivated non-story

On the afternoon of September 25th the BBC News website published a report by Tom Bennett headlined ...

September 10, 2025

Value judgements in BBC coverage of Ramot terror attack

On the morning of September 8th the BBC News website began reporting on what was originally describe...

August 4, 2025

BBC scraps the word terrorist from headline concerning convicted terrorist

As previously noted, the new BBC editorial guidelines – set to come into effect on September 1...

July 29, 2025

BBC portrays terrorist as ‘Pro-Palestinian convict’ and ‘teacher’

On July 25th the BBC promoted a report by its Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield: Readers of Schofie...

July 4, 2025

BBC announces new editorial guidelines

Following the public consultation which took place late last year, the BBC has published new editori...

May 11, 2025

Has the BBC kept its October 2023 promises?

Two weeks after the horrific events of October 7th 2023, the BBC was in damage control mode due to e...