Owen Bennett-Jones

November 30, 2017

BBC’s Newshour Extra listeners get a partisan ‘explanation’ of Hizballah

BBC World Service listeners get yet another dose of Hizballah messaging. ...

August 17, 2017

Is a BBC WS claim about Israeli politicians true?

The BBC WS told audiences that Israeli politicians have been 'muted' on Trump's Charlottesville comm...

June 2, 2017

BBC WS on counter-terrorism: Israeli measure is ‘highly controversial’

Discussing counter-terrorism in the wake of the Manchester attack, the BBC World Service returns to ...

February 19, 2017

How the BBC invents ‘new settlements’ with lax language

We have on many occasions documented the use of imprecise language in BBC reports which results in a...

February 8, 2017

BBC WS radio ‘Newshour’ special from the Gaza Strip – part two

In part one of this post we discussed the earlier section of Tim Franks’ report from the Gaza ...

February 7, 2017

BBC WS radio ‘Newshour’ special from the Gaza Strip – part one

The BBC World Service ‘Newshour’ special feature that began on January 30th with Tim Fra...

July 10, 2016

Another BBC airbrushing of the Quartet report

As documented here previously (see ‘related articles’ below), the BBC News website’...

May 13, 2016

BBC’s mantra on ‘international law’ becomes even less impartial

Listeners to the May 6th edition of the BBC World Service programme ‘Newshour’ (from 14:...

January 31, 2016

BBC papers over UN HRC connection of Swiss PLO deal broker

On January 22nd the BBC News website published an article titled “Switzerland ‘made secr...

November 3, 2015

BBC World Service ‘Newshour’: using ‘alleged’ and ‘fact’ for framing

In addition to the filmed report from Hebron shown on BBC television news programmes on October 30th...