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November 24, 2020

BBC Radio 4 coverage of US Secretary of State visit – part two

In part one of this post we discussed a pre-emptive report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande ...

November 23, 2020

BBC Radio 4 coverage of US Secretary of State visit – part one

When the Foreign Minister of Bahrain and his accompanying delegation arrived in Israel on November 1...

November 9, 2020

BBC Radio 4 fails to disclose an interviewee’s ‘particular viewpoints’

The November 7th edition of the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme included a speculative item about ...

October 25, 2020

BBC’s Bateman recycles his olive harvest report for Radio 4

Last week we reviewed a filmed report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman which appeared on ...

September 22, 2020

Reviewing BBC Radio 4’s framing of the Abraham Accords

Previously we looked at BBC World Service radio’s insertion of the topic of human rights in Bahrai...

September 11, 2020

BBC refuses to correct erroneous Oslo Accords claims

Last month we documented inaccurate claims made by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell during...

August 19, 2020

Inaccuracies in BBC reporting on the Israel-UAE agreement – part two

As documented here earlier, BBC reporting on the announcement concerning the normalisation of relat...

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...