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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...

January 27, 2021

Yolande Knell’s contribution to the BBC’s vaccines campaign

On January 25th a filmed report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell appeared on the BBC Ne...

September 22, 2020

Reviewing BBC Radio 4’s framing of the Abraham Accords

Previously we looked at BBC World Service radio’s insertion of the topic of human rights in Bahrai...

August 30, 2020

BBC reports on Corona in Gaza include context-free portrayal of blockade

Visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ have in recent days seen two written reports ...

August 18, 2020

Inaccuracies in BBC reporting on the Israel-UAE agreement – part one

As readers no doubt recall, throughout June the BBC devoted considerable resources to coverage of th...