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July 9, 2020

Reviewing the impartiality of BBC radio coverage of potential application of civil law to parts of Area C

The BBC’s editorial guidelines on impartiality state: “Due impartiality usually involves more ...

July 7, 2020

Reviewing BBC R4 Today’s idea of ‘balanced’ coverage – part two

In part one of this post we discussed an interview with the Palestinian Authority’s representative...

July 6, 2020

Reviewing BBC R4 Today’s idea of ‘balanced’ coverage – part one

Between mid-May and the end of June the BBC devoted considerable efforts to the preemptive framing o...

July 2, 2020

BBC Radio 4 listeners told Israel ‘officially’ rejects the two-state solution

Since mid-May the BBC has devoted much energy, air-time and column space to the preemptive framing o...

June 28, 2020

BBC Jerusalem correspondent again misleads on the Oslo Accords

Three and a half years ago the BBC adopted the PLO’s interpretation of the term ‘two-state solut...

May 14, 2020

BBC’s Bateman boosts bathroom baloney

In addition to his May 12th written report about phone tracking to identify contact with Covid-19 ca...

April 13, 2020

BBC R4’s Today omits context to revisited story

Nearly four years ago, in May 2016, the BBC produced two reports about a project to clear landmines ...

April 6, 2020

BBC ME editor makes Gaza Strip ventilators disappear

On March 30th the BBC announced that: “Some of BBC News’ best-known voices are reading their...

March 31, 2020

Examining BBC reports on Corona-related cell phone tracking

On March 17th listeners to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme heard the following report in a new...

March 18, 2020

BBC News continues to avoid the issue of Joint Arab List politics

Following the election in Israel at the beginning of March we documented the BBC’s provision of br...