Tom Bateman

July 28, 2021

World Service radio radically broadens BBC’s framing of spyware story

Previously we have looked at how the BBC has chosen to erase from audience view a British firm’s m...

July 23, 2021

BBC continues to avoid the whole story in BDS reports

Previously we looked at some of the BBC’s early coverage of the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream boyc...

July 4, 2021

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

Throughout the month of June 2021, forty-four written or filmed reports (one of which was removed) r...

July 2, 2021

Another superficial BBC report on Gaza fishing

The BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman has recently been in the Gaza Strip again and among the res...

June 9, 2021

BBC sticks to the narrative on the Sheikh Jarrah property dispute

Although it has now been reporting intensively on the topic for a month, the BBC has yet to provide ...

June 3, 2021

Examining early BBC Radio 4 framing of the May 10 hostilities – part one

Previously we looked at points arising from the first hours of BBC Radio 4 coverage of the May 10th ...

June 2, 2021

BBC Radio 4 gives PA envoy unchallenged platform for promotion of lies

After Hamas had fired rockets at Jerusalem on the evening of May 10th – and as attacks continu...

May 14, 2021

How did BBC News report rocket attacks on Jerusalem?

Previously we addressed a BBC News website report titled “Jerusalem violence: More clashes ahead o...

April 29, 2021

BBC News produces first report on Palestinian elections

Three months after Mahmoud Abbas issued a presidential decree ordering elections for the first time ...

April 28, 2021

Rocket attacks on Israeli civilians get less than a minute of BBC coverage

On the night between April 23rd and 24th thirty-six rockets were fired at Israeli communities by ass...