Operation Swords of Iron

August 4, 2024

Reviewing BBC coverage of the Hizballah attack on Majdal Shams – part two

Previously we have discussed the BBC News website’s initial and next day coverage of the July 27th...

August 2, 2024

Reviewing BBC coverage of the Hizballah attack on Majdal Shams – part one

Previously we looked at the BBC News website’s initial coverage of the July 27th Hizballah attack ...

July 31, 2024

BBC News tells partial stories from Deir al Balah and Balata

On July 27th the BBC News website published a report which was originally headlined “Israeli strik...

July 30, 2024

Avoiding the issues: the story of a complaint to the BBC

In October 2023 the BBC News website published several items of content produced by the BBC Verify t...

July 29, 2024

BBC News website coverage of the Majdal Shams massacre

On the evening of July 27th the BBC News website began reporting a breaking news story about a Hizba...

July 28, 2024

More promotion of the BBC’s selective narrative on Hizballah

Note: this post was written before the Hizballah rocket attack which killed twelve children in Majda...

July 26, 2024

Weekend long read

1) At the INSS, Tammy Caner analyses ‘The Misleading Reports of the UN Over Famine in Gaza’. “...

July 24, 2024

High on narratives, low on facts: BBC’s Orla Guerin in southern Lebanon

Since last October BBC audiences have seen a number of items that were the product of BBC journalist...

July 23, 2024

BBC News Channel presenter editorialises on Hizballah motives

One might have presumed that nine and a half months after Hizballah launched its unprovoked attack o...

July 21, 2024

Where did BBC ‘special correspondent’ Fergal Keane get his latest Gaza story?

On the afternoon of July 16th the BBC News website published yet another report by the corporationâ€...