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BBC Trust upholds complaint by professional anti-Israel campaigner
Jewish refugees leaving the Old City of Jerusalem in 1948 As readers may have heard, the BBC Trust has upheld a complaint by professional anti-Israel campaigner Ben White. The Jewish Chronicle reports:...
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Tenacity brings results in complaint about BBC Ward article
Readers no doubt remember that in January of this year the BBC published two articles on consecutive days on the UK Politics page of its website relating to remarks made by David Ward MP. The second...
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BBC Executive cites Gaza article as example of improved ‘Arab Spring’ reporting
In June 2012 the BBC Trust published the report it commissioned from Edward Mortimer on the subject of the accuracy and impartiality of the BBC’s coverage of the ‘Arab Spring’ events. On August 6th...
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BBC’s Ward article amended
h/t @Lsorang Just over two weeks ago we reported here on the partial upholding by the BBC Trust of a complaint made with regard to the wording of one of the BBC’s articles concerning the offensive...
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BBC ESC: ‘lack of due accuracy’ on Davies Tweet from Operation Pillar of Cloud
As long-time readers of BBC Watch know, we have frequently highlighted the fact that BBC Editorial Guidelines apply to all BBC content – including social media. Twitter – being fast-moving ‘instant’...
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Are the BBC Trust’s days numbered?
In case readers have not yet seen it, here is an interesting report from the Telegraph according to which the possibility of transfer of regulation of the BBC from the BBC Trust to Ofcom has been...
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Have your say: the BBC Trust wants to know what you think
Via the Daily Telegraph we learn that: “The BBC Trust has launched the latest in a series of audience consultations to establish whether the corporation’s news output is living up to its public...
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Debate widens on BBC avoidance of the word terrorist
We have frequently posited on these pages that the BBC’s long-standing policy of avoiding the use of the word ‘terror’ and its derivatives on the grounds that such use would constitute a “value...
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BBC Trust ESC rules: no requirement to translate accurately
As readers may remember, back in February we noted here that a report by the then BBC Gaza Strip correspondent Jon Donnison – which was promoted on several BBC platforms and in various formats –...
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No terror please, we’re the British Broadcasting Corporation
At some point there is inevitably going to have to be a proper public debate on the subject of the BBC’s selective and politically motivated use of the word ‘terror’ and its derivatives, but so far it...
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Two weeks left to have your say at the BBC Trust
Here’s a quick reminder that the BBC Trust’s public consultation on the subject of its news and current affairs programmes, along with its website and social media activity, ends in two weeks – on...
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The Times reports: BBC Trust upholds 2011 complaint against ‘Today’ programme
h/t JS The March 15th edition of The Times included some interesting news about a two and a half year-old complaint to the BBC in an article titled “Rift grows after BBC watchdog upholds complaint over...
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Two and a half years a BBC complainant
Earlier this month we noted a Times report on the subject of the BBC Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee’s upholding of a complaint against an edition of the ‘Today’ programme broadcast on June 10th...
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More on the uselessness of BBC complaints response targets
The same BBC Trust Editorial Standards Committee report referred to in this recent post also includes the ESC’s findings regarding complaints made concerning another edition of the Radio 4 ‘Today’...
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The bizarre basis for the BBC’s rejection of an appeal
The BBC Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee findings published on March 25th include details of its rejection of the presentation of an appeal concerning the June 14th 2013 edition of BBC Radio 4′s...
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Why does the BBC Trust’s ESC pretend that the 1947 Partition Plan is a thing?
Readers no doubt remember that in the summer of 2012 the BBC’s Sports department produced a profile of Israel on its dedicated Olympics webpage which claimed that Israel has no capital city whilst...
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BBC Trust review of News and Current Affairs published
Readers may recall that last autumn the BBC Trust announced an audience consultation regarding its news and current affairs content. The results of that consultation have now been published and can be...
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Who would you nominate to be the next chair of the BBC Trust?
Last week’s news that Chris Patten has resigned from his position as chair of the BBC Trust due to ill-health has of course prompted a flurry of commentary. As speculations are made regarding names of...
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Discussion of the BBC Trust’s review of News and Current Affairs
We already know how the BBC Trust presented the results of its recent public consultation on news and current affairs to licence fee payers and how the BBC itself has reported the review’s findings,...
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Interesting insight into how the job of Trust chair is seen by BBC staff
On August 30th the BBC’s Media and Arts correspondent David Sillito reported on the appointment of Rona Fairhead to the position of chair of the BBC Trust. In his filmed report Sillito made the...
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