Public Purposes

September 21, 2013

Murdered Israeli soldier nameless in BBC report

Visitors to the BBC News website’s Middle East page on September 21st were informed that an Is...

September 20, 2013

BBC presents airbrushed picture of Rouhani NBC interview

The headline to an article appearing on the BBC News website’s Middle East page on September 1...

September 10, 2013

BBC gets in on ‘Mossad Spy Zoo’ action

Like several other media outlets including the Guardian, the BBC has made use of the latest example ...

September 5, 2013

Which themes got most exposure on the BBC News website in August?

The volume of articles concerning Israel which appear consistently on the BBC News website has been ...

September 1, 2013

One-sided BBC backgrounder reading list on peace talks

At the bottom of the “Israel profile” which appears in the country profiles section on t...

August 29, 2013

BBC defence correspondent: Al Kibar was a ‘suspected’ nuclear facility

The International Atomic Energy Agency says it was. US intelligence says it was. The BBC, however, i...

August 27, 2013

Unnecessary BBC correction does a makeover on Nasrallah

On August 16th 2013 the BBC News website carried an article on its Middle East page now titled ̶...

August 25, 2013

BBC’s Knell amplifies Hamas propaganda, downplays its terror designation

On August 23rd 2013 an article titled “Gaza: Hamas urges Egypt to reopen Rafah crossing”...

August 24, 2013

BBC backgrounder on peace process erases twenty years of terror

Readers of the BBC News website’s Middle East page may have noted the interesting use there of...

August 23, 2013

Nothing to see: BBC reports on missile attacks focus on grading damage

In the early hours of the morning of Friday, August 23rd 2013 the Israeli Air Force struck a target ...