Lyse Doucet

March 3, 2024

The BBC’s own record debunks Jeremy Bowen’s ‘free access’ claims

On the evening of February 28th the BBC News website published a report by Yasmin Rufo and David Gri...

January 5, 2024

BBC News reporting on Saleh al Arouri highlights years of omission

The elimination of a senior Hamas operative and several others in Beirut on the evening of January 2...

October 13, 2023

Reviewing BBC reporting on rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip

Early versions of the BBC News website’s first report on the attacks launched by Hamas on October ...

July 5, 2022

Superficial BBC reporting on Hizballah’s gas rig drone threats

Last month we noted on these pages that BBC audiences had heard nothing about threats from LebanonÂ...

May 18, 2022

BBC WS radio promotion of the ‘Israel targets journalists’ libel

As we have previously documented (see ‘related articles’ below) early cross-platform BBC reporti...

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...

May 13, 2022

BBC News website uncritically promotes Al Jazeera claims once again

The day after the death of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11th in Jenin three items...

March 8, 2022

An overview of BBC coverage of Israel PM’s Russia visit

The unusual visits to Moscow and Berlin by Israel’s prime minister Naftali Bennett on March 5th we...

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 ...

May 12, 2021

BBC’s Doucet and Knell frame Jerusalem events for worldwide listeners

An item aired in the afternoon edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ on Ma...