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BBC World Service gives inaccurate report on the ceasefire that wasn’t
As readers are no doubt already aware, the ‘ceasefire’ of July 15th lasted a mere six hours due to the fact that terrorist organisations in the Gaza Strip did not cease their fire of missiles into...
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BBC WS presenter: filmed evidence of Hamas’ misuse of hospitals is ‘rumours...
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is – as readers are most likely aware – an organisation which since the early days of the second Intifada has been providing financial, logistic and PR...
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BBC WS’s Dan Damon turns domestic Palestinian story into anti-Israel...
The news that Mahmoud Abbas had unilaterally decided to dissolve the one year-old ‘Palestinian Unity Government’ was reported on the BBC News website’s Middle East page in an article titled...
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The BBC, an Ultra-Orthodox paper and the censorship of images
The August 18th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘World Update’ included an item about a photograph published in an American weekly newspaper which, with its circulation of some 20,000,...
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How BBC radio programmes misled by adding one letter and a plural
For years the BBC has, in the context of Israel-related stories, defined the term ‘settlements’ as follows: “Settlements are communities established by Israel on land occupied in the 1967 Middle East...
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Inaccurate BBC WS radio portrayal of Israeli legislation
As noted here previously, the lead item in the July 19th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘World Update‘ concerned legislation passed hours beforehand by the Israeli Knesset. The...
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BBC’s ME editor continues his ‘Bedouin village’ narrative – part two
As documented in part one of this post, on September 17th viewers of two BBC television channels saw a narrative-driven report blighted by important omissions on the subject of the Bedouin encampment...
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BBC WS radio’s ‘World Update’ misleads on UN SC resolution 1701
h/t AB Our documentation of the BBC’s decidedly uninformative coverage of Operation Northern Shield has so far included one item aired on BBC World Service radio. On December 19th listeners to the BBC...
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Political messaging eclipses context in BBC WS Fourth of July report
Listeners to the afternoon edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ on July 4th heard a report from Yolande Knell in which information and context were side lined in favour of...
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BBC radio passes the microphone to Iranian propaganda
h/t SG The January 3rd edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘World Update’ – titled ‘Iran vows revenge for US killing of military leader’– included an early item (from 04:35 here) which was...
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