Poland

February 25, 2022

A Corona vaccines story the BBC did not consider newsworthy in English

The BBC News website has a dedicated ‘Coronavirus pandemic’ page, a ‘health’ page, a ‘vacc...

April 24, 2019

BBC Europe editor devotes over half a report on antisemitism in Poland to Israel

BBC Europe editor uncritically recycles problematic remarks from 2018....

February 18, 2019

BBC News turns media blunder into story about Israeli PM’s ‘comment’

The BBC fails to adequately explain a story about a media accuracy error....

February 15, 2019

BBC Monitoring’s Warsaw Summit hashtag ‘research’ gets mixed reception

In which we learn that the partly licence fee funded BBC Monitoring is investigating 'opposition soc...

July 3, 2018

UKMW prompts Indy to correct Robert Fisk’s claim on Nazi-confiscated Jewish properties in Poland

Contrary to Robert Fisk's claim, Polish Jews do not have a "right" to “take back Nazi-confiscated ...

June 28, 2018

BBC News website omits key information in Polish Holocaust law report

The BBC's report on amendments to a Polish law omits essential background. ...

February 25, 2018

UKMW prompts Guardian correction to misleading caption for photo of far-right Polish demo

Following communication with UK Media Watch, Guardian editors amended a photo caption which misleadi...

February 19, 2018

BBC WS tells listeners to go online for part of a story it didn’t tell

BBC WS listeners hear a discussion about a statement made by the Polish PM - without the statement. ...

February 9, 2018

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading....

February 5, 2018

BBC R4 ‘Today’ impartiality fail in item on Polish Holocaust bill

BBC Radio 4 listeners hear that 'hundreds of thousands died' in Nazi camps in Poland. ...