Press Freedom

December 29, 2025

BBC News fails to provide Al Jazeera context yet again

After Israel’s Knesset passed a law in April 2024 facilitating the temporary closure of foreign me...

May 20, 2025

BBC ignores Hamas intimidation of Gaza journalists

In May 2023 the BBC News website managed to produce an article about a report put out by the Committ...

May 16, 2025

Weekend long read

1) At the FDD, Joe Truzman reports on the Hamas ‘Arrow Unit’. “Despite the volume of media cov...

December 4, 2024

BBC Beirut staff display double standards on media tours

With regard to BBC coverage of Israel’s operations in Lebanon, we previously noted on these pages ...

September 25, 2024

The BBC’s Al Jazeera problem on view again

On September 22nd the BBC News website published a report credited to Jacqueline Howard and Mallory ...

August 19, 2022

BBC again platforms terror group that abuses press freedom

As we have documented, the BBC’s cross-platform coverage of Operation Breaking Dawn has included o...

August 15, 2022

Overview of BBC radio reporting on Operation Breaking Dawn

Throughout the four days of BBC coverage of Operation Breaking Dawn a marked difference was evident ...

December 30, 2012

Guardian’s media blogger, Roy Greenslade, ignores Hamas restrictions on journalists

A guest post by AKUS This was the Guardian’s list of top Media stories on December 28th: Oddly eno...