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January 10, 2023

Partisan terminology and talking points in BBC radio reporting on Temple Mount

Previously we reviewed the BBC News website’s reports relating to a short visit to Temple Mount by...

September 8, 2022

Predictable BBC reporting on IDF Abu Akleh investigation results

From the moment on May 11th when the news broke that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh had bee...

September 4, 2022

The latest BBC reporting on the Munich Olympics terror attack

Five years ago we documented the BBC’s failure, for the most part, to describe the 1972 Munich Oly...

July 7, 2022

BBC coverage of US statement on Abu Akleh investigation

The statement issued on July 4th by the US State Department regarding the inconclusive results of an...

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 6, 2022

BBC R4 reports on Lavrov comments promote an existing narrative

Listeners to BBC Radio 4 on May 2nd heard several items relating to comments made the previous day b...

May 20, 2021

BBC’s Yolande Knell promotes speculation on Yaffo incident

Listeners to BBC Radio 4’s ‘PM’ programme on May 15th heard a report (from 16:32 here) from th...

May 19, 2021

BBC promotes unevidenced claims of Israel ‘trying to silence’ Gaza reporting

Back in August 2014 former Associated Press journalist Matti Friedman wrote this about the relations...

April 21, 2021

Natanz narratives on BBC Radio 4’s ‘PM’

BBC Radio 4’s coverage of the April 11th incident at the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran included...

February 28, 2021

BBC R4 exploits ‘green passport’ reports for gratuitous linkage

Previously we saw how the BBC News website and BBC World Service radio recently promoted redundant l...