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Post Vatican prayer meet missile from Gaza Strip ignored by BBC
The BBC News website’s coverage of the June 8th visit by Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas to the Vatican for a joint prayer meeting with the Pope included a written report titled “Pope Francis peace plea...
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BBC lost in news agency translation of Pope’s words to Mahmoud Abbas?
On May 16th the BBC News website’s Middle East page ran an article headlined “Pope Francis calls Palestinians’ Abbas ‘angel of peace’“. The same messaging is repeated in the article’s opening...
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Update on the BBC’s ‘angel of peace’ story
As was reported here recently, the BBC News website published an article on May 16th in which it was claimed that the Pope had described the PA’s Mahmoud Abbas as “an angel of peace”. The same claim...
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BBC News misleads on ‘Arab world’ saints, hides significance of Vatican-PA...
On May 13th the BBC News website’s Middle East page published a report titled “Vatican to recognise Palestinian state in treaty“. The main image selected to illustrate that article dates from May 2014...
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BBC WS’s ‘Newshour’ exploits Pope’s canonizations for promotion of propaganda
BBC coverage of the Pope’s recent canonization of four nineteenth century nuns has focused exclusively on the two who were born in places which were at the time part of the Ottoman Empire: Jerusalem in...
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Still no BBC correction on inaccurate “first new saints” claim
A BBC News website article published on May 13th informed readers that: As was already pointed out here a couple of weeks ago, that claim is inaccurate. “In 1977 a Lebanese Maronite Christian was...
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The consequence of BBC failure to make online corrections
On May 16th 2015 the BBC News website ran a story titled “Pope Francis calls Palestinians’ Abbas ‘angel of peace’” which was discussed here. A link to that article was included in an additional report...
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BBC’s Yolande Knell touts the ‘1967 borders’ illusion on Radio 4
The BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Sunday‘ claims that it gives listeners “a look at the ethical and religious issues of the week”. However, the lead item in its January 15th edition fell outside that mission...
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BBC corrects ‘angel of peace’ claim after two complaints
Last month we noted that a BBC News website article promoted inaccurate information which the BBC itself had already clarified twenty months earlier. “The consequence of that failure to clarify...
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Was BBC News reporting of the Pope’s Christmas address accurate and impartial?
On December 25th visitors to the BBC News website’s main homepage, its ‘World’ page and its ‘Middle East’ page found a report presented as follows: Contrary to the impression given by that...
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