Tom Bateman

October 20, 2021

Jerusalem bureau’s Bateman compromises BBC impartiality

On the evening of October 18th the BBC Jerusalem bureau correspondent Tom Bateman retweeted a Tweet ...

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...

October 1, 2021

BBC double standards on terrorism create headlines not fit for purpose

On the morning of September 26th visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page found t...

September 13, 2021

BBC’s Bateman avoids the word terror in report on escaped prisoners

The September 6th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ included an item (...

September 2, 2021

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – AUGUST 2021

Throughout the month of August 2021, twenty-five written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or...

September 1, 2021

BBC News describes Hamas terrorist pictured with grenade as ‘a man’

The last two paragraphs of a report published on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page on ...

August 24, 2021

BBC’s Bateman shoehorns Israel into reports on Palestinian vaccinations

On August 19th the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman produced two reports based on the topic of a...

August 6, 2021

Reviewing impartiality in BBC coverage of the Sheikh Jarrah case – part two

In part one of this post we discussed the BBC’s use of partisan terminology and its predominant am...

August 4, 2021

Reviewing impartiality in BBC coverage of the Sheikh Jarrah case – part one

Previously we looked at BBC News website’s August 2nd anticipatory framing of a story which had ye...

August 1, 2021

BBC News recycles outdated report on Palestinian Corona vaccinations

BBC News coverage of the Israeli government’s decision to offer a third dose of vaccine against Co...