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BBC Monitoring coverage of Ramadan soaps – the sequel
As was noted here last week, BBC Monitoring recently produced a written report for the BBC News website about the popular soap operas and dramas shown on television in the Middle East during Ramadan....
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BBC Monitoring digs up the dirt with cleaners non-story
In the financial year 2013-14, BBC Monitoring ceased to enjoy funding from sources such as the UK government’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Ministry of Defence and since then it has been...
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BBC Monitoring uses Sykes-Picot anniversary to promote conspiracy theory
The 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement this week produced a rash of journalistic commentary, much of which succumbed to the fashion of lazily blaming that agreement for the Middle East’s...
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Inaccuracies in BBC backgrounder on Sinai terrorists
An article by Kevin Connolly published on the BBC News website’s Middle East page on May 20th under the title “EgyptAir crash fuels fears and theories” tells readers that: “Egypt sees itself as a...
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Dumbing down ME politics with BBC Monitoring
On June 1st the BBC News website’s Middle East page published a video by BBC Monitoring which purported to assist audiences in finding an answer to the question “Why can’t Lebanon elect a president?“....
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Reviewing BBC reporting of Hizballah’s violations of UNSC Resolution 1701
On August 12th 2006 the BBC News website reported that: “The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a new resolution calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Resolution 1701 calls...
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BBC finds a ‘working definition’ for terrorism in Europe
The BBC Radio 4 programme ‘More or Less’ and Radio 1’s ‘Newsbeat’ were commended in the recent BBC Trust review of the impartiality of the corporation’s reporting of statistics in its news and current...
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Hizballah official admits what BBC Monitoring didn’t tell
Back at the beginning of June BBC Monitoring produced a video which purported to assist audiences in finding an answer to the question “Why can’t Lebanon elect a president?“. As was noted here at the...
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BBC WS presenters fail to challenge politically motivated narrative
As noted here previously, among its coverage of the death of former Israeli president Shimon Peres announced just hours earlier on September 28th, the 08:06 edition of BBC World Service radio programme...
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BBC reports on Lebanese presidential election omit relevant information
October 31st saw the appearance of two BBC News website reports concerning the long-awaited election of a president in Lebanon. A report currently going under the headline “Lebanon: Michel Aoun elected...
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A cryptic BBC portrayal of ME reactions to US election result
November 9th saw the appearance of an article titled “US election 2016: Middle East awaits Trump policy decisions” on the BBC News website’s Middle East page. “Many Middle Eastern leaders have...
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Confused and conflicting BBC reporting on Syrian jihadists
When the Syrian group Jabhat al-Nusra rebranded itself as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham in late July 2016, the BBC told its audiences that the group had “split from al-Qaeda“: “Syrian jihadist group Jabhat...
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BBC Trending recycles a previously published BDS falsehood
On May 10th an article credited to Lamia Estatie appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page and on the BBC Trending blog. At the bottom of the article readers are told that it was produced “By...
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In which BBC Monitoring contradicts the BBC World Service
As noted here earlier, on the afternoon of August 16th the BBC World Service inaccurately told its listeners that: “While President Trump has come under a lot of flack from Jewish leaders and...
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‘Ensuring accuracy’ at the BBC Monitoring Jerusalem office
BBC Monitoring is the partially licence fee funded department that translates open source traditional and new media from around the world and describes its mission as being “to provide news,...
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BBC News and the ‘Saudi newspaper’ that isn’t
An article published on the BBC News website’s Middle East page on November 21st under the headline “Israeli man’s photos in holy Muslim site cause social media rage” ends with the following paragraph:...
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BBC Monitoring steers clear of key parts of the Jerusalem story
On December 7th the BBC News website published an article by BBC Monitoring under the less than objective title “Middle East media reacts to ‘slap of the century’” which opened by telling readers that:...
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Israel water tech offer to Iranians not news for the BBC
Earlier this year BBC Monitoring produced a backgrounder on a topic the UN has been flagging up for some time. Titled “Iranian drought raises environmental alarm“, the backgrounder – a version of which...
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BBC WS airbrushes terror out of a story about Palestinian prisoners
The September 7th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘The Fifth Floor’ included an item described in its synopsis as follows: “Radio messages for prisoners Around 6,000 Palestinians are...
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BBC Monitoring claims to take on the ‘manipulation of messaging’
On November 1st the BBC put out the following Tweet: The link leads to a blog post titled “BBC Monitoring: spotting fake news since the Second World War” written by the director of BBC Monitoring, Sara...
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