Tim Franks

April 23, 2020

BBC WS radio presents a partial portrayal of ‘annexation’

The April 20th evening edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ included a di...

March 29, 2020

BBC WS isolates narrative from context in another Gaza Corona report

As we have previously documented (see ‘related articles’ below), in the past couple of weeks the...

February 18, 2020

BBC WS radio jumps on the Gaza comparison bandwagon

'Newshour' chose to highlight one sentence from a six-minute interview....

February 6, 2020

BBC WS radio promotes US peace plan commentary from partisan lobbying group

Newshour listeners were told that the US plan is "an act of geo-political arson"....

February 5, 2020

BBC radio interviews same PA representative three times in one day

Tim Franks was not perturbed by the dissonance of a representative of an entity which literally pays...

December 26, 2019

The BBC’s biased Bethlehem binge continues

Barbara Plett Usher's exploitation of the season of goodwill gets more BBC exposure. ...

December 24, 2019

The BBC returns to an old obsession

The BBC continues to focus on the exception to the rule in Israeli football. ...

November 26, 2019

BBC’s Jeremy Bowen misrepresents the 4th Geneva Convention

The BBC Middle East editor failed to provide audiences with accurate and complete information. ...

November 18, 2019

BBC abandons independent verification in reporting on Gaza casualties

The BBC has taken to describing all Gaza Strip casualties as “Palestinians”, regardless of wheth...

October 16, 2019

BBC portrayal of attacks on synagogues differs according to location

The BBC had no problem describing a shooting attack at a synagogue as terrorism when it happened in ...