Lebanon

November 18, 2016

Weekend long read

1) Writing at Newsweek, David Daoud discusses the new Lebanese presidency. “…the day after A...

November 11, 2016

Weekend long read

1) At the Tower Jamie Palmer meticulously documents an important phenomenon in an article titled ...

November 1, 2016

BBC reports on Lebanese presidential election omit relevant information

October 31st saw the appearance of two BBC News website reports concerning the long-awaited election...

October 13, 2016

BBC WS presenters fail to challenge politically motivated narrative

As noted here previously, among its coverage of the death of former Israeli president Shimon Peres a...

September 29, 2016

Indy’s Robert Fisk smears Shimon Peres as a man of ‘blood and slaughter’.

The headline of the Sept. 28th piece, "Shimon Peres was no peacemaker. I’ll never forget the sight...

September 21, 2016

Hizballah official admits what BBC Monitoring didn’t tell

Back at the beginning of June BBC Monitoring produced a video which purported to assist audiences in...

September 9, 2016

Weekend long read

1) Last month the BBC News website published a rare article about an incident related to internal a...

August 16, 2016

Reviewing BBC reporting of Hizballah’s violations of UNSC Resolution 1701

On August 12th 2006 the BBC News website reported that: “The UN Security Council has unanimous...

August 7, 2016

Tepid BBC report on Lebanese Olympic team’s bigoted agitprop

On the morning of August 7th an item billed “Lebanon and Israel teams in bus dispute” ap...

July 28, 2016

A retrospective look at BBC coverage of the Second Lebanon War – part three

As was noted in part two of this post, some of the themes found in BBC coverage of the Second Lebano...