Operation Protective Edge

August 15, 2016

The BBC’s reporting of statistics and Gaza casualty ratios

h/t D On August 10th the BBC Trust published the findings of a review of the impartiality of the BBC...

August 14, 2016

Mapping changes in the BBC’s disclosure of restrictions on journalists

“The movements of those reporting from Baghdad are restricted and their reports are monitored ...

August 8, 2016

BBC again creates false linkage between Israel and attacks on hospitals

h/t JB Two months ago BBC Radio 4 promoted a Gaza Strip related story but failed to provide its list...

August 1, 2016

Comparing BBC reporting on strikes on hospitals in Syria and Gaza

On July 31st the Associated Press reported an airstrike (allegedly not the first) on a hospital in t...

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...

July 27, 2016

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

A review of the content produced by the BBC a decade ago at the time of the Second Lebanon War shows...

July 24, 2016

Why the accuracy and impartiality of BBC reporting matters

Last week a debate on the conditions and health of Palestinian children was held in the House of Lor...

July 11, 2016

Some context to the BBC’s ‘reporter in the Gaza rubble’ features

Back in October 2014 the BBC produced several reports on the subject of the Cairo donor conference a...

July 7, 2016

BBC Persian promotes falsehood in report on Elie Wiesel’s death

h/t Dr CL A member of the public recently alerted us to an inaccuracy in an article concerning the d...

June 16, 2016

Misleading by omission on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs

The June 10th edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Desert Island Discs’, presented by K...