Tim Franks

January 22, 2025

BBC presentation of Palestinian prisoners sticks to the old template

On January 20th the BBC News website published a filmed report on its ‘Middle East’ page under t...

April 3, 2023

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – MARCH 2023

Throughout the month of March 2023, thirty-four written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or ...

March 29, 2023

BBC’s Franks ignores ‘contributors’ affiliations’ guidelines

Since the public protests against the Israeli government’s plans to make major changes to the judi...

September 1, 2022

BBC Jerusalem bureau ‘journavism’ goes to Masafer Yatta

Back in May, BBC World Service radio presented its listeners around the globe with an entirely one-s...

May 19, 2022

A narrative and a libel on BBC WS radio’s Newshour

The lead item (from 00:10 here) in the May 11th afternoon edition of BBC World Service radio’s ‘...

May 18, 2022

BBC WS radio promotion of the ‘Israel targets journalists’ libel

As we have previously documented (see ‘related articles’ below) early cross-platform BBC reporti...

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 16, 2022

BBC Radio 4 and the Al Jazeera narrative – part one

BBC Radio 4’s initial reporting on the death of Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11th in the ‘Today’ p...

May 15, 2022

BBC Radio 4 sticks to the narrative on Al Jazeera journalist’s shooting

Previously we have looked at the BBC’s initial reporting of the death of Shireen Abu Akleh in Jeni...

May 12, 2022

BBC WS ‘Newsday’ reporting on journalist’s death in Jenin

The shooting of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh early on the morning of May 11th in Jenin q...