What has the BBC ever done for us?
The BBC used a joke about puritanical groupthink to advertise the importance of the licence fee. The result is an accidental masterpiece of self parody.
Leah Benoz
Fixed It. Examining BBC Backflips over Hamas Responsibility
The BBC "Hamas-run" formula, adopted to help inform, continues to obfuscate rather than clarify. Once again, the BBC refuses to lay any agency at the feet of people it increasingly appears to view as purely reactive, uncomplex and incapable of strategic thought.
The BBC Erases Hamas
The BBC has a duty to accuracy and impartiality which they fail to uphold time and time again, because of an institutional inability to hold Hamas responsible for their own actions, or even name them as actors at all. In this way they recruit themselves into Hamas’ propaganda strategy and entirely abdicate their responsibility to their audience and licence fee payers.
BBC Continues to Run Cover for Propaganda
The BBC chose not to tell its audiences about the CPJ review into the deaths of journalists in Gaza. Why is an institution committed to impartiality obscuring the truth?
What is the BBC Not Telling You About the Lebanon Deal
Why does the BBC continue to prioritise the amplification of Hezbollah talking points over meeting it’s obligation to accuracy and impartiality? It is a question the institution must grapple with as its journalists’ failures continue to undermine BBC standards.
The BBC and the Hamas Propaganda Pipeline
The BBC fails to do basic fact checking on fresh claims of targeting journalists in Gaza, a failure which illustrates a much deeper and more insidious problem than simply erosion of journalistic standards.
Jeremy Bowen and ‘Lebanon’s Curse’
Jeremy Bowen's analysis of the Memorandum of Understanding between the US and Iran creates a caricature of the war in Lebanon, and almost entirely erases Hezbollah
BBC’s Yolande Knell and the Anatomy of a Narrative
Middle East correspondent Yolande Knell provided what was framed as a deep dive into the volatile property disputes of East Jerusalem. But what was delivered to BBC audiences was a masterclass in deliberate distortion. Knell didn’t merely stumble into bias; she systematically bypassed the legal and historical realities of the area to fit a constructed narrative.
Guilty If Proven Innocent – The BBC and Unfalsifiable Evidence Against Israel
The BBC creates a system of unfalsifiable evidence against Israel whereby absence of proven guilt is merely evidence of a culture of impunity.
When is a War Crime Not a War Crime – The BBC and Gazan Migration
The BBC's expresses a shocking double standard on the voluntary migration of Gazans out of Gaza. Some groups of refugees are allowed to leave their war zones, while Palestinians are expected to stay.