David Gritten

BBC Flotilla Reports: High on Narrative, Low on Facts

BBC's reporting on the latest Global Sumud Flotilla again puts wind in the sails of assorted anti-Israel narratives and fails to provide readers with facts essential for full understanding of the story.

How did the BBC portray Hezbollah’s escalation?

As has also been seen in BBC News website coverage of Iranian regime attacks on Israeli civilians, despite the corporation having a permanent bureau in Jerusalem, audiences have seen remarkably little reporting from the sites of Hezbollah attacks. That lack of coverage stands out even more when compared to the volume of reporting from other locations, particularly Lebanon.

LA Times’ Uncritical ‘Review’ of Corrie Play

In his Los Angeles Times review of the British play "My Name is Rachel Corrie," David Gritten describes Rachel Corrie as "a relatively obscure name in her native U.S," one of several distortions about the American who interfered in a closed military area in the Gaza Strip and was killed accidentally.