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Context lacking, inaccuracies let slide in BBC WS coverage of PLO mission...
Previously we saw how a BBC News website report on the US decision to close the PLO office in Washington DC failed to provide readers with an adequate explanation of both the legal background to that...
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Weekend long read
1) The potential designation of the Muslim Brotherhood – covered by the BBC at the end of last month – is the topic of a discussion held at the FDD available both as a transcript and on video. “As the...
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BBC Arabic website promotes antisemitic Holocaust analogy
A demonstration organised by groups including the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al Aqsa and the Muslim Association of Britain took place in London earlier this month. As documented by the...
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BBC journalists get a ‘briefing’ from a past interviewee
Ahead of the US initiated economic workshop in Bahrain next week (which the Palestinian Authority claims to have ‘foiled’), PA and PLO representatives in London have been rather busy. In addition to...
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Another PA official gets unchallenging BBC radio air-time
A week after having briefed BBC journalists and four days after his colleague participated in two sympathetic BBC radio interviews, the PA representative in London, Husam Zomlot, was given another...
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Examining the BBC’s claim of Palestinian support for the two-state solution
Back in May, in a report concerning Palestinian rejection of the as yet unpublished US peace initiative, BBC News told its audiences that: “It is unclear whether the [US] plan will be based on the...
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BBC Radio 4’s preemptive framing of the ‘Peace to Prosperity’ plan
Half a day before the launch of the US administration’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan on January 28th, BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme aired an edition which included several reports concerning a document...
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BBC’s ‘Newshour’ serves up ‘rumours and leaks’ with one-sided analysis
As we saw earlier, BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme supplied its listeners with preemptive framing of the US administration’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan which was based primarily on speculation and...
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BBC radio interviews same PA representative three times in one day
As we have already seen, preemptive framing of the US administration’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan by both BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service radio on January 28th included the provision of a platform...
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BBC Complaints invokes ‘common parlance in the media’
As documented previously, on January 28th listeners to BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service radio repeatedly heard Husam Zomlot described as “the Palestinian ambassador to the UK” and “the Palestinian...
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