Roger Hearing

April 16, 2019

BBC WS ‘Business Matters’ sails close to antisemitic trope

A BBC World Service radio business programme's dismal 'analysis' on Israel. ...

June 17, 2016

Bolstering and airbrushing BDS on BBC WS ‘Business Matters’ – part two

Following a long and misleading introduction (discussed in part one of this post, from 01:06 here), ...

June 16, 2016

Bolstering and airbrushing BDS on BBC WS ‘Business Matters’ – part one

We have noted many times before on these pages that whilst the BBC often provides a platform for p...

June 24, 2015

More BBC multiplatform mainstreaming of an anti-Israel trope

Obviously not content with the previous amplification of propaganda rhetoric used by anti-Israel cam...

June 5, 2015

A postscript to BBC Business’ recent reports from the Gaza Strip

As readers are aware, Roger Hearing and Marie Keyworth from the BBC’s business department rece...

June 3, 2015

BBC World Service’s Hearing reveals the political foundations of a ‘business’ report

The May 20th edition of BBC World Service radio’s ‘Business Matters’ devoted rough...

June 3, 2015

BBC WS’s ‘Business Matters’ misrepresents the status of Area C in report on PA economy

Twenty years ago the internationally recognised representatives of the Palestinian people signed an ...

May 29, 2015

Mainstreaming anti-Israel rhetoric on the BBC World Service

In addition to the ‘Gaza Special’ broadcast on May 19th on the BBC World Service radio p...

May 26, 2015

BBC Business accuracy fail on Gaza tomato exports

Last week two journalists from the BBC World Service’s business department – Roger Hearing a...

February 12, 2015

Political messaging on BBC WS ‘Business Matters’

h/t J The BBC World Service radio programme ‘Business Matters‘ is described as follows: ...