Six O’Clock News

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...

February 20, 2022

More of Tom Bateman’s ‘betrayal’ narrative on BBC R4

Previously we looked at narratives promoted by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman in a Februar...

February 17, 2022

BBC Radio 4 news report makes the PIJ disappear

Listeners to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Six O’Clock News’ on February 14th heard the following (from 16:...

January 30, 2022

BBC ECU issues decision on reporting of the Oxford Street incident

On January 8th the BBC News website reported that the many complaints it had received concerning rep...

December 29, 2021

BBC radio framing of the Golan Heights development plan

Regular readers are no doubt familiar with the BBC’s penchant for erasing history prior to June 19...

December 16, 2021

BBC’s Tom Bateman still clinging to Abraham Accords ‘betrayal’ framing

On December 13th both BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service radio covered the first official visit by an...

November 25, 2021

BBC Radio 4 promotes a red herring on UK designation of Hamas

Let’s take a look at how the UK Home Secretary’s proposal to proscribe Hamas as a whole was port...

October 15, 2021

Longtime BBC editorial policies resurface in Radio 4 news Rooney report

Regular readers are no doubt familiar with the BBC’s long record of mainstreaming both the anti-Is...

August 8, 2021

BBC News website ignores rocket fire from Lebanon twice in two days

The hundreds of millions of people worldwide who get their news from the BBC website have seen no re...